Mr Barry Sheerman – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Barry Sheerman on 2014-03-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of free schools approved to date are faith schools.

Edward Timpson

37 of 142 open mainstream free schools have a faith designation (26%); this compares to 34% of all state-funded mainstream schools.