I would like to reply to the ‘figure it out...’ letter in last week’s Review.

When I write to the local media I state my name and where I live. So if you want to dispute my figures then, at least have the courage to put your name and address.

Right, if you are a statistician let’s talk statistics.

The 20 per cent school population increase, which I highlighted, came from figures obtained from The Department of Education. There are actually 2.7 million and not 3 million children, as you state, in secondary schools. This is forecast to rise to 3.3 million by 2024, a rise of 20 per cent. Officials in the Department state that, in large part, this is due to mass immigration. The most recent figures, provided by the Office of National Statistics, show that in 2014, 188,000 out of 690,000 live births recorded were to foreign born mothers.

The extrapolations you made about no more than one new immigrant child in no more than one in six classes is simply nonsense, based on your use of erroneous facts.

A huge surge in net migration, 318,000 last year alone, has a knock-on effect on public services like schools.

As a result, about one in five children do not get their first choice of school.

All my figures are reliably sourced, not lies but statistics.

– Averil Sumners, Bream.