Baroness Humphreys – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Humphreys on 2016-10-03.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what percentage of children born between (1) 1 September and 30 April, and (2) 1 May and 31 August, were admitted to academy schools in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Lord Nash

The department does not hold a dataset which contains both a child’s date of birth and the type of school they attend. The amount of data linkage across datasets for separate years that would be required to answer the question would incur disproportionate costs.