§ Mr. Astorasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a list of those education authorities which are either implementing or making concrete plans for the reorganisation of secondary education on comprehensive lines.
§ Mr. CroslandIt is not practicable to give exact information as the situation is one of constant development. The following lists are based on the latest information available in my Department.
I. Authorities with one or more comprehensive school at January 1965, according to current statistical classifications. English Counties Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire Cornwall. Somerset Cumberland Staffordshire Derbyshire Suffolk West Devon Warwickshire Dorset Westmorland Essex Yorkshire, East Riding Gloucestershire Hertfordshire* Yorkshire, West Riding Lancashire Nottinghamshire English County Boroughs Birmingham Manchester Bradford Newcastle - upon- Tyne Bristol Coventry Nottingham Grimsby Sheffield Kingston-upon-Hull Sunderland Leeds Walsall Liverpool West Bromwich Inner London Education Authority Outer London Boroughs Havering* Hillingdon* Welsh Counties Anglesey Glamorgan Breconshire Merioneth Caernarvonshire Monmouthshire Cardiganshire Montgomeryshire Carmarthenshire Pembrokeshire Denbighshire Welsh County Boroughs Newport Swansea
II. Other Authorities known to be making plans for secondary reorganisation in the whole or part of their areas. English Counties Durham Northamptonshire Huntingdon and Peterborough Joint Board Shropshire Suffolk East Surrey. Kent Sussex West Leicestershire Wiltshire Lincolnshire (Lindsey) 100W
English County Boroughs Blackburn Rochdale Darlington St. Helens Doncaster Southport Leicester Stoke-on-Trent Lincoln Wakefield Middlesbrough Wigan Oldham Worcester Preston Outer London Boroughs Croydon Newham Welsh Counties Flintshire Radnorshire Welsh County Boroughs Cardiff Merthyr Tydfil * Comprehensive schools in operation at January 1965, but included within the revised local education authority areas operative from April 1965.
§ Mr. Astorasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a list of education authorities whose approved plans for secondary education are based exclusively on a comprehensive system in the whole of their area.
§ Mr. CroslandThere are at present three authorities whose maintained secondary school provision is wholly comprehensive—Anglesey, Montgomeryshire and Merioneth.