HC Deb 04 February 1965 vol 705 cc320-1W
Mr. Lomas

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give in table form the percentage of children selected for grammar school education in Huddersfield, and other major towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire.

Mr. Crosland

The following table shows the number of 13-year-old pupils, for whom the local education authority is financially responsible, in Huddersfield and the ten other most populous county boroughs in Yorkshire and Lancashire, in January, 1964, and the distribution of these pupils by type of school. Figures are provisional. Final figures will be published later this year in the 1964

L.E.A. No. of 13-year-old pupils for whom L. E. A. are financially responsible (1) Percentage of 13-year-old pupils in schools of the following types:
Maintained Schools Direct Grant Grammar (8) Independent (9)
Primary (All-age) (2) Modern (3) Technical (4) Comprehensive (5) Other secondary (6) Grammar (7)
Huddersfield 1,702 63.3 0.1 10.0 26.6
Bradford 4,186 3.1 61.4 5.9 2.5 23.0 3.9 0.1
Hull 4,945 8.1 64.6 10.6 4.5 11.5 0.5 0.3
Leeds 6,927 5.6 60.6 1.5 12.9 16.3 3.1
Middlesbrough 2,734 63.7 4.9 15.1 16.3
Sheffield 5,839 5.1 62.7 6.2 6.4 1.5 16.1 2.1
Blackpool 1,615 71.7 19.9 7.6 0.9
Bolton 2,133 65.7 10.5 13.5 10.4
Liverpool 10,875 5.1 56.5 1.3 4.7 5.6 24.5 2.2 0.2
Manchester 9,483 7.0 58.6 12.4 5.6 11.3 5.0 0.1
Salford 2,190 8.2 68.8 3.2 3.9 12.1 3.7 0.2