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Question for Department for Education

UIN 200166, tabled on 10 June 2014

Question

Mr Nigel Evans
Conservative
Ribble Valley
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils in (a) Ribble Valley constituency, (b) Lancashire and (c) the UK attended faith schools in the latest year for which figures are available.

Answer

Mr David Laws
Liberal Democrat
Yeovil
Commons

Answered on

16 June 2014

Education is a devolved matter and data on pupils held by the Department for Education refers to schools in England only. Information on pupils attending state-funded schools in England is collected via the school census. Information on pupils attending independent schools is collected via the school level annual school census. The latest data is for January 2014.

In January 2014, the proportion of pupils that attended schools with a religious character declared on Edubase was (a) 50% in Ribble Valley constituency, (b) 45% in Lancashire and (c) 26% in England.

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