§ Mr. Grantasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the average percentage of pupils of primary schools passing into grammar schools in England over the past five years.
§ Mr. CroslandThe information is not available in the form requested. The best approximation is the percentage in grant-aided grammar schools of 13-yearold pupils, for whom local education authorities in England are financially responsible. The number of such pupils is roughly the same as the number of 10-year-old pupils in primary schools three years earlier. The percentage of them in grant-aided grammar schools was, in the average of the years 1960–64, 19.2 per cent.