Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.

Secretary of State for Education
Minister for the School System and Finance
Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing
Permanent Secretary
Deputy Permanent Secretary
Parliamentary and Communications Special Adviser
Schools, Children and Families Special Adviser
Skills and Higher Education, Further Education Special Adviser
Social Media and Digital Comms Special Adviser
Head of Profession for Statistics
Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics
Chief Analyst
Press Office Deputy Director
Press Office
Head of Pupil Place Planning
Pupil Place Planning Project Management Office (3)
School Places Analysis Team, Regions Group (2)
Strategic Finance Director
Deputy Director, Central Capital Unit
School Places Capital (3)
Head of School Organisation and Transport Unit
Team Leader, School Organisation
Team Leader, School Places Analysis
Deputy Director, Free Schools Policy and Programmes
Team Leader, Free Schools Governance and Sufficiency
Director General for Families Group
Director, Special Educational Needs & Disability and Alternative Provision

Date updated	Summary of update
17 May 2024	Added national, regional and local authority level data for specialist provision in mainstream schools.
19 April 2024	Updated to amend wording on national pupil projections.
21 March 2024	First published

Updates to Academic year 2022/23School capacity

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