HC Deb 06 February 1996 vol 271 c132W
Dr. Hampson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what recent assessment she has made of the proportion of parents who gain a place at their first choice of school(a) nationally and (b) in Leeds. [13178]

Mrs. Gillan

This information is not collected centrally. Surveys commissioned by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities in 1992 and byThe Times newspaper in 1993 suggested that some 90 per cent. of parents gained a place at their first choice school. No figures are available on the proportion of parents gaining a place at their first choice school in Leeds.