Department for Education written question – answered at on 25 November 2016.
Suella Fernandes
Conservative, Fareham
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the distance is to the nearest selective school from the centre of each of the towns and cities in England with a population over 75,000; and for those such towns and cities in England for which that distance is less than 10 miles, how many selective schools are within 10 miles of that town or city centre.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State (Education)
The requested information can be found in the table below:
Distances from major towns and cities in England to the nearest state-funded selective school | ||||
Town / City | Distance to Nearest Grammar School (miles) | Number of Grammar Schools within 10 miles | ||
Barnsley | 13.3 | 0 | ||
Basildon | 7.9 | 3 | ||
Basingstoke | 13.9 | 0 | ||
Bath | 26.1 | 0 | ||
Bedford | 24.2 | 0 | ||
Birkenhead | 1.1 | 7 | ||
Birmingham | 1.2 | 10 | ||
Blackburn | 9.6 | 1 | ||
Blackpool | 18.4 | 0 | ||
Bolton | 9.2 | 1 | ||
Bournemouth | 2.3 | 4 | ||
Bracknell | 8.9 | 6 | ||
Bradford | 5.8 | 3 | ||
28.2 | 0 | |||
Bristol | 25.2 | 0 | ||
Burnley | 6.6 | 2 | ||
Burton upon Trent | 18.6 | 0 | ||
Bury | 7.2 | 1 | ||
Cambridge | 35.2 | 0 | ||
Carlisle | 17.6 | 0 | ||
Chatham | 0.4 | 14 | ||
Chelmsford | 0.4 | 2 | ||
Cheltenham | 1.7 | 5 | ||
Chester | 11.8 | 0 | ||
Chesterfield | 29.3 | 0 | ||
Colchester | 0.7 | 2 | ||
Coventry | 10.6 | 0 | ||
Crawley | 16.6 | 0 | ||
Darlington | 26.6 | 0 | ||
Derby | 28.5 | 0 | ||
Doncaster | 16.4 | 0 | ||
Dudley | 6.3 | 9 | ||
Eastbourne | 25.2 | 0 | ||
Exeter | 16.7 | 0 | ||
Gateshead | 50.4 | 0 | ||
Gillingham | 0.9 | 14 | ||
Gloucester | 0.6 | 7 | ||
Grimsby | 11.0 | 0 | ||
Guildford | 17.0 | 0 | ||
Halifax | 1.4 | 3 | ||
Harlow | 11.5 | 0 | ||
Harrogate | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Hartlepool | 40.4 | 0 | ||
Hastings | 16.8 | 0 | ||
7.2 | 3 | |||
0.9 | 10 | |||
Huddersfield | 5.9 | 3 | ||
Ipswich | 16.2 | 0 | ||
Kingston upon Hull | 17.2 | 0 | ||
Leeds | 8.1 | 1 | ||
Leicester | 19.0 | 0 | ||
Lincoln | 15.9 | 0 | ||
Liverpool | 2.7 | 7 | ||
London | 5.7 | 7 | ||
Luton | 14.1 | 0 | ||
Maidstone | 0.5 | 10 | ||
Manchester | 3.4 | 7 | ||
Mansfield | 25.3 | 0 | ||
Middlesbrough | 32.5 | 0 | ||
10.2 | 0 | |||
Newcastle upon Tyne | 50.6 | 0 | ||
Newcastle-under-Lyme | 2.1 | 1 | ||
Northampton | 17.4 | 0 | ||
Norwich | 53.9 | 0 | ||
Nottingham | 21.7 | 0 | ||
Nuneaton | 13.6 | 0 | ||
Oldham | 10.2 | 0 | ||
Oxford | 19.1 | 0 | ||
Peterborough | 14.5 | 0 | ||
Plymouth | 0.4 | 3 | ||
Poole | 2.1 | 4 | ||
Portsmouth | 33.8 | 0 | ||
Preston | 15.0 | 0 | ||
Reading | 0.6 | 2 | ||
Redditch | 6.9 | 4 | ||
Rochdale | 6.9 | 1 | ||
Rotherham | 22.8 | 0 | ||
Salford | 3.0 | 7 | ||
Scunthorpe | 13.2 | 0 | ||
Sheffield | 24.0 | 0 | ||
Shrewsbury | 16.2 | 0 | ||
Slough | 0.8 | 7 | ||
Solihull | 5.4 | 6 | ||
58.1 | 0 | |||
Southampton | 20.2 | 0 | ||
0.8 | 4 | |||
Southport | 17.8 | 0 | ||
8.6 | 1 | |||
8.6 | 1 | |||
Stevenage | 17.2 | 0 | ||
Stockport | 6.2 | 7 | ||
Stockton-on-Tees | 31.0 | 0 | ||
Stoke-on-Trent | 1.3 | 1 | ||
Sunderland | 53.5 | 0 | ||
0.1 | 7 | |||
Swindon | 23.5 | 0 | ||
Telford | 6.5 | 2 | ||
Wakefield | 6.9 | 1 | ||
Walsall | 0.4 | 8 | ||
Warrington | 9.8 | 2 | ||
Watford | 7.6 | 5 | ||
2.8 | 11 | |||
42.2 | 0 | |||
Wigan | 13.0 | 0 | ||
Woking | 12.6 | 0 | ||
Wolverhampton | 1.2 | 3 | ||
Worcester | 14.8 | 0 | ||
Worthing | 35.6 | 0 | ||
York | 22.2 | 0 | ||
Notes: | ||||
Distances are calculated based on the location of the town centre according to Google Maps | ||||
Major towns and cities are from the 2016 ONS list based on towns and cities in England with a resident or workday population of more than 75,000 in the 2011 census. | ||||
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