To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when he expects the January 2007 schools census data to be published; and if he will make a statement. (144095)

[holding answer 19 June 2007]: Provisional data from the January 2007 census were published on 16 April 2007 in the Statistical First Release on the Department’s website:

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000726/index.shtml

Final data will be published in September 2007. The Secretary of State is not expected to make a statement. Final data on special educational needs (also taken from the census) are published on 26 June.