HC Deb 11 March 1996 vol 273 cc428-9W
Mr. Devlin

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what additional assisted places are to be made available, by school, in the north of England. [19622]

Mrs. Gillan

The information requested for schools already participating in the assisted places scheme is given in the table:

Number of additional entry places in September 1996
North-east
Barnard Castle school 10
Central Newcastle high school 5
Dame Allan's boys' school 7
Dame Allan's girls' school 7
King's school, Tynemouth 28
Newcastle upon Tyne church high 30
Polam Hall school 10
Number of additional entry places in September 1996
Royal Grammar school 5
Teeside high 7
Yarm school 10
North-west
Arnold school 25
Austin Friars school 8
Belverdere school 20
Birkenhead high school 5
Birkenhead school 5
Bolton school boys' division 10
Bolton school girls' division 10
Bury Grammar school (boys) 10
Bury Grammar school (girls) 10
Casterton school 8
Cheadle Hulme School 5
Hulme Grammar school for boys 5
Hulme Grammar school for girls 5
King Edward VII school 5
King's school Chester 4
King's school Macclesfield 35
Kirkham Grammar 5
Manchester Grammar school 10
Manchester High school for girls 10
Merchant Taylors' boys' school 20
Merchant Taylors' school for girls 15
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar school 20
Queen Mary school 10
Sedbergh school 15
St. Ambrose college 22
St. Bede's college 25
St. Bees 4
St. Edward's 25
Stockport Grammar school 5
Stonyhurst college 29
Westholme school 40
William Hulme's Grammar 30
Withington Girls' school 3
Yorkshire and Humberside
Ashville college 13
Batley Grammar school 30
Bootham 12
Bradford Girls' Grammar school 3
Bradford Grammar school 20
Giggleswick school 10
Harrogate Ladies' college 14
Hymers college 5
Leeds Girls' high school 5
Leeds Grammar school 15
Mount school 13
Queen Elizabeth Grammar school 10
Scarborough college 33
Sheffield High school for girls 12
St. Peter's school 5
Wakefield girls' high school 10
Woodhouse Grove 5

My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will announce shortly the allocation of a further 1,100 entry places in September 1996 at 60 or so schools in England not currently participating in the scheme.