Written question asked by Baroness Berger (Labour) on Monday, 19 July 2010, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 22 July 2010. It was answered by Nick Gibb (Conservative) on Wednesday, 8 September 2010 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Schools: Databases

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many open maintained primary and secondary schools in England were on the edubase database on 25 May 2010.

Answer

[holding answer 22 July 2010]: The information requested is as follows.

Schools in England
	Local authority maintained	Academies
Primary	17,023	—
Secondary	3,135	—
Total	20,158	203
Notes:
1. The figures represented in this table do not include Special Schools.
2. The table includes Academies because this type of establishment receives state funding from the Government.
Source:
EduBase2

Secondary information