§ Dr. Kingasked the Minister of Education whether he has considered the adoption of any of the recommendations of the Fleming Report of 1944.
§ Mr. TomlinsonYes. The revised regulations for direct-grant grammar schools embodied many features of the Fleming Committee's Scheme A. It has not been possible to carry out the Committee's specific recommendations regarding independent boarding schools, but in my Department's Circular 120, the hope was expressed that independent schools would be ready in an increasing degree to reserve boarding places for children educated under the public system. A considerable number of places has been taken up, usually by direct arrangement between authorities and the independent schools.