Shrewsbury MP writes to Prime Minister over faith schools admission cap
Shrewsbury's MP has written to the Prime Minister to remove the admissions cap for faith schools - to allow schools to have more than 50 per cent of children of one faith.
Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, tells Theresa May in his letter that The Rev Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury, highlighted that admissions caps have not been removed, despite the Government promising to do so in the most recent manifesto.
Mr Kawczynski says in the letter: "This cap means that faith schools in this country currently can only accept half of their students from one particular faith and, after this point, are prevented from accepting any more pupils of the same faith.
"This, in my humble opinion, means that they are not truly faith schools at all.
"This cap has also had the effect of stifling the opening of new Catholic schools as to do so would contravene the code of canon."
Mr Kawczynski said that he feels very strongly about this issue as a Catholic himself, and told Mrs May that it should be tackled immediately.
"This is an incredibly easy promise to keep and one that I, and many others, would argue is long overdue," he adds.
"This issue was raised earlier this year by my colleague Lucy Allan MP and I feel that the time has come for the Government to take action.
"As a Government we have to ask ourselves, if we cannot fulfil the pledges of our own manifesto and deliver on what we promised - then what are we for?"
