AQW 30476/22-27

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 05/09/2025
Answered On Date: 29/09/2025
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education to provide the religion, including those who are of no faith, of children in every school, broken down by (i) church or named religion, (ii) school name; and (iii) school type including: (a) Controlled, (b) Maintained, (c) Integrated, (d) Controlled Integrated, (e) Voluntary Grammar, (f) Controlled Grammar, (g) Irish Medium; and (h) Controlled Irish Medium.

Answer:

The answer has been placed in the Assembly Library.

Religion is classified as special category data under data protection legislation and therefore requires enhanced safeguards. Due to the risk of potential identification of individuals, the information at school level has been provided using five broader categories.

Information broken down by all religious categories has been provided by the specific management/school types requested for part (iii).