§ 42. Mr. J. E. B. Hillasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what comparability studies are or have been made between the progress and improvement of the least able children in comprehensive and in secondary modern schools, respectively.
§ Mr. CroslandIt has not been possible to make systematic studies on these lines as until recently there have been very few truly comprehensive schools in this country; that is to say, even those schools130W called "comprehensive" have frequently been creamed of their top-ability group by the existence of selective schools in the same area.