To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will list each (a) trust school and (b) foundation school in England as at (i) 1 September 2006 and (ii) 1 September 2007; and if he will make a statement. (164020)

Copies of the lists of foundation and trust schools existing on the dates specified have been lodged with the House Library. To produce this information, it was necessary to reconcile two separate databases carrying with it a small margin for error.

The regulations of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 governing trust schools came into force in May 2007 and according to our records there were no trust schools set up under that legislation before August 2007.