Primary Education: Admissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils were in maintained primary schools in each year since 1997. (169805)

The available information is largely published in SFR 30/2007 “Schools and Pupils in England: January 2007 (Final)”, which can be found via the following link: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000744/index.shtml. The information requested is given in the following table:

*Number of pupils in LA maintained primary*¹ *schools: Position in January each year: 1997 to 2007: England*
	Number of pupils (headcount)²
1997	4,429,040
1998	4,460,650
1999	4,460,170
2000	4,435,350
2001	4,406,220
2002	4,363,340
2003	4,309,030
2004	4,252,540
2005	4,204,500
2006	4,148,950
2007	4,107,680
¹ Includes middle schools that are deemed primary schools. ² Excludes dually registered pupils. Source: School Census

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007