The requested information is shown in the following table:
1996/971 1997/982 1998/99 1999/2000 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 Primary Admission appeals lodged by parents 178 94 111 196 235 194 112 116 139 151 Appeals heard by an appeals panel 142 77 99 143 181 147 77 88 102 116 Appeals decided in parents’ favour 83 59 71 79 108 93 36 63 52 65 Secondary Admission appeals lodged by parents 335 164 266 366 269 287 265 182 206 223 Appeals heard by an appeals panel 312 134 251 294 194 231 202 144 177 189 Appeals decided in parents’ favour 208 108 138 180 123 138 87 75 125 111 1 Includes Peterborough local authority as before local government reorganisation (LGR). 2 From 1 April 1998 : It is expected that the majority of appeals for the 1997/98 academic year will have been lodged prior to April 1998. In some cases these figures are either included in the original authority totals or were not available.
(2) what estimate he has made of the number of surplus places in schools in each year to 2025.
The responsibility in law to plan school places is placed on local authorities. Local authorities are expected to take robust measures to remove surplus places and ensure that school places are where parents want them.
The Department collects data on the number of school places and numbers of pupils on roll on a school by school basis, together with LA wide pupil projections via an annual survey. The Department does not collect projections of the capacity of schools or the numbers of school places from local authorities.
The Department’s estimates for the number of pupils in full-time education in schools in England are shown as follows:
Thousand As at January each year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 All Maintained Schools2 7,383 7,300 7,208 7,157 7,076 Non-Maintained Special Schools 5 5 4 4 4 Academies3 45 80 134 162 220 City Technology Colleges 11 5 3 3 3 Independent Schools 566 564 561 559 556 All schools 8,010 7,953 7,911 7,885 7,860 1 Full-time equivalents, counting each part-time pupil as 0.5. The numbers have been rounded to the nearest thousand. 2 Pupil numbers in maintained schools includes those in nursery, primary, secondary (including pupils in sixth forms in secondary schools), maintained special schools and maintained Pupil Referral Units. 3 Projections are based on a target of 200 academies by 2011.
Projections are not shown beyond 2011 because of the increasing degree of uncertainty over time, particularly for post-compulsory schooling.