HC Deb 11 May 1961 vol 640 c63W
7. Sir S. Storey

asked the Minister of Education for what reasons he sanctioned the proposal of the Lancashire Education Committee to divide the coeducational Urmston Grammar School into two single-sex grammar schools.

Sir D. Eccles

Because a new grammar school was needed and the local education authority thought that the best solution was to make the existing school a girls' school and the new school a boys' school.