HC Deb 27 February 1990 vol 168 c171W
103. Mrs. Currie

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the number of schools which have now been accorded grant-maintained status and on the number of schools which have commenced the process of application for this status.

Mrs. Rumbold

To date 86 schools have embarked on the process of applying for grant-maintained status. Of these 80 schools have held ballots, and parents at 60 of them have so far voted in favour of proceeding with an application. My right hon. Friend has approved or said he is minded to approve 35 of the 46 proposals which have so far reached him for decision. More secondary schools have now been approved for grant-maintained status than the number of secondary schools in over half of English LEAs.