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Schools: Shrewsbury

Commons · Question 26762 · Tabled 27 Jan 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 4 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Julia Buckley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the adequacy of provision of secondary school places in areas of high population density in Shrewsbury constituency.

Answer

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 4 Feb 2025

The statutory duty to provide sufficient school places sits with local authorities. The department provides capital funding through the basic need grant to support local authorities to provide school places, based on their own pupil forecasts and school c...