To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the percentage change is in the proportion of children defined as black or minority ethnic in (a) denominational and (b) maintained schools in each English local education authority since 2000-01. (137768)

The available information has been placed in the House Library.

A new set of codes to record the ethnicity of pupils was introduced in January 2002 consistent with the categories used in the 2001 national census. Schools were, however, permitted to report data on either the old or the new codes, between which there is no direct mapping. Therefore, the answer gives information on pupils’ ethnicity from 2003 onwards to promote consistency.