HC Deb 26 January 1931 vol 247 cc618-9W
Mr. J. WILSON

asked the President of the Board of Education if he will give comparative figures to the latest convenient date showing the number and names of the local education authorities which are permitted to award more than 50 per cent. free places in their grant-aided secondary schools; the number of schools concerned in each education area; and the percentage admitted in each case?

Sir C. TREVELYAN

The particulars are as followSTATEMENT of Local Education Authorities in whose areas the Board have approved the award of free places tenable at Grant-aided Secondary Schools, in excess of 50 per cent. of the admissions in the previous school year.

The third column shows the number of free places awarded at grant-aided secondary schools at the beginning of the school year 1930–31, calculated as a percentage of the number of pupils admitted to these schools during the school year 1929–30.

Local Education Authority. Number of Schools. Percent age.
I. Areas in which all the Schools are free.
Smethwick, County Borough Council 2 —
Local Education Authority. Number of Schools. Percent age.
II. Areas in which all the Schools are free.
Wallasey, County Borough Council 5 56.4
Plymouth, County Borough Council 8 90.4
Durham County Council 22 77.1
Darlington, County Borough Council 5 69.8
Manchester, County Borough Council 17 65.0
Oldham, County Borough Council 3 63.7
Salford, County Borough Council 7 62.7
Bradford, County Borough Council 13 115.2
Sheffield, County Borough Council 9 70.8
Glamorgan County Council 33 72.1
Cardiff, County Borough Council 9 58.0
Merthyr Tydfil, County Borough Council 4 74.6
Swansea, County Borough Council 4 62.4
Newport, County Borough Council 4 76.2
III. Areas in which none of the Schools is free.
Gateshead, County Borough Council 1 56.9
West Ham, County Borough Council 5 68.4
Gloucester County Council 19 53.2
Barrow, County Borough Council 2 100.5
Bootle, County Borough Council 2 75.4
Preston, County Borough Council 5 53.4
Rochdale, County Borough Council 1 57.3
Stoke - on - Trent, County Borough Council 4 54.0
York, County Borough Council 6 55.0
Yorks, West Riding, County Council 49 63.6
Barnsley, County Borough Council 2 66.7
Doncaster, County Borough Council 2 90.0
Halifax, County Borough Council 6 55.6
Huddersfield, County Borough Council 4 71.1
Rotherham, County Borough Council 2 68.7
Wakefield, County Borough Council 4 55.1
Anglesey County Council 3 70.2
Brecon County Council 5 79.3
Merioneth County Council 7 56.1
Montgomery County Council 8 65.0
Radnor County Council 2 76.0