HC Deb 13 December 1962 vol 669 cc97-8W
65. Mr. Wiley

asked the Minister of Education what were the numbers of boys and girls, respectively, transferred from secondary modern schools to secondary grammar schools for the latest available year.

Mr. Chataway

This information is not available and could be obtained only by a special inquiry to local education authorities. Arrangements for the transfer of pupils from one type of school to another vary significantly between different areas and total national figures would be misleading. Some information about the numbers of pupils leaving secondary modern schools in 1960–61 to transfer to other schools in order to take G.C.E. advanced level courses is given in "Statistics of Education 1961, Part II".