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...