Primary Education: Admissions Mr. Laws To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many pupils were in maintained primary schools in each year since 1997. Jim Knight 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 (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| | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------