The Department collects information from each local authority on the number of surplus school places through an annual survey. The most recent data available relate to the position at January 2008.
The following tables show the number of local authorities with a percentage of surplus places of 10 or above at primary level and those with a percentage of surplus of 10 or above at secondary level.
LA Surplus (percentage) Barnsley 10 Bedfordshire 13 Bournemouth 13 Bracknell Forest 10 Brighton and Hove 11 Bristol 11 Bromley 10 Buckinghamshire 11 Calderdale 11 Cambridgeshire 12 Cheshire 13 Cornwall 10 Cumbria 10 Derby City of 13 Derbyshire 13 Doncaster 16 Dorset 15 Dudley 10 Durham 16 East Riding of Yorkshire 12 East Sussex 10 Essex 12 Gateshead 13 Gloucestershire 12 Greenwich 12 Hackney 11 Halton 13 Hampshire 11 Harrow 13 Hartlepool 11 Havering 11 Herefordshire 16 Hertfordshire 12 Hillingdon 11 Hounslow 10 Isle of Wight 22 Islington 13 Kensington and Chelsea 10 Kent 10 Kingston upon Hull City of 11 Kirklees 12 Knowsley 22 Lancashire 15 Leeds 11 Leicester City of 10 Leicestershire 12 Lewisham 12 Liverpool 13 Manchester 11 Medway Towns 12 Merton 13 Middlesbrough 18 Milton Keynes 14 Newcastle Upon Tyne 15 Newham 10 Norfolk 14 North East Lincolnshire 15 North Lincolnshire 11 North Tyneside 20 North Yorkshire 18 Northamptonshire 12 Northumberland 19 Nottingham City of 19 Nottinghamshire 13 Oxfordshire 10 Peterborough 11 Plymouth City of 13 Portsmouth 14 Reading 15 Redcar and Cleveland 14 Rochdale 11 Rotherham 11 Rutland 24 Salford 15 Sandwell 13 Sefton 12 Sheffield 12 Shropshire 15 Solihull 12 Somerset 10 South Gloucestershire 13 South Tyneside 19 Southampton 14 Southwark 15 Staffordshire 14 Stockport 10 Stockton on Tees 11 Stoke on Trent 13 Suffolk 18 Sunderland 14 Swindon 11 The Wrekin 12 Thurrock 13 Wakefield 17 Walsall 10 Warrington 14 Warwickshire 12 West Sussex 11 Wiltshire 16 Wirral 14 Wolverhampton 16 Worcestershire 11 York 13 Total LAs 103
LA Surplus (percentage) Barnet 10 Bracknell Forest 10 Bradford 10 Bristol 21 Croydon 11 Cumbria 10 Doncaster 10 Dorset 10 Durham 14 Gateshead 10 Greenwich 14 Hackney 15 Halton 12 Hammersmith and Fulham 17 Hertfordshire 10 Hillingdon 13 Isle of Wight 15 Islington 11 Kingston upon Hull City of 10 Kirklees 10 Knowsley 24 Lancashire 12 Leicester City 10 Lewisham 17 Liverpool 11 Manchester 11 Medway Towns 10 Middlesbrough 14 Milton Keynes 12 Newham 10 North East Lincolnshire 20 North Lincolnshire 12 North Yorkshire 11 Northumberland 15 Nottingham City of 22 Nottinghamshire 10 Oxfordshire 12 Peterborough 11 Portsmouth 11 Reading 16 Redcar and Cleveland 10 Richmond upon Thames 13 Rochdale 13 Rutland 12 Salford 19 Sefton 11 South Gloucestershire 12 Southampton 20 Stockton on Tees 11 Stoke on Trent 14 Suffolk 12 Sunderland 15 Torbay 13 Trafford 10 Wandsworth 11 Wiltshire 11 Wirral 13 Wolverhampton 14 Total LAs 58