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date	12/07/2019
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of UK children that have attended fee paying schools in the UK in each year since 2010.
tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
uin	276596
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/07/2019 answer text <p>The number of pupils attending independent schools in England in each year since 2010 is published in table 1a of the ‘Schools, pupils and their characteristics’ statistical release. This can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2019</a>.</p><p>Information on the nationality of pupils is not collected and information on children attending schools in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the devolved administrations.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton question first answered 18/07/2019 16:31:44 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

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registered interest
date	06/10/2017
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Private Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students aged between 11 and 18 are studying in fee-paying schools in England.
tabling member constituency	Belfast South
tabling member printed	Emma Little Pengelly
uin	106425
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/10/2017 answer text <p>Figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in England are collected annually in the statutory school-level annual school census (SLASC). Figures from January 2017 by single year of age can be found in national table 1c of the statistical release ‘Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics’ available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-and-pupil-numbers</a>.</p><p> </p><p>As education is a devolved matter, statistics on schools are published separately by the four administrations. Therefore, figures on the number of pupils in independent schools in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales should be requested directly from the individual administrations.</p> answering member constituency Guildford answering member printed Anne Milton grouped question UIN 106427 106428 106429 question first answered 16/10/2017 09:11:08 answering member 1523 label Biography information for Anne Milton
tabling member	4611 label Biography information for Emma Little Pengelly