HC Deb 04 August 1966 vol 733 cc166-9W
64. Mr. Roebuck

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is satisfied with the progress being made towards the establishment of a comprehensive system of education in the London Borough of Harrow; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Crosland

My Department has been informed by the Chief Education Officer that the Authority has not yet completed its consultations on secondary reorganisation. I hope that they will be able to submit a plan to me later in the year.

Mr. Howarth

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is satisfied with the progress in the study of comprehensive education, as applied to Northamptonshire, in response to his circular on the subject to the Northamptonshire County Council; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Crosland

My Department was informed by the Chief Education Officer on 27th July that a draft plan for secondary reorganisation was rejected by the Northamptonshire Authority on 21st July. I hope that the Authority will be able to formulate revised plans for submission to me at a later date.

Mr. Alfred Morris

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many local education authorities have yet to submit proposals for reorganising secondary education in their areas; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Crosland

The following 15 local education authorities have schemes of reorganisation covering the whole of their area implemented or approved, either before or since the issue of Circular 10/65:

Anglesey. Merioneth.
Bradford. Middlesbrough
Brent. Montgomeryshire.
Bristol. Newport (Mon.).
Cardiff. Oldham.
Darlington. Rochdale.
Doncaster. Wakefield.
Luton.

2. The following 29 authorities* have schemes implemented or approved for part of their area, either before or since the issue of Circular 10/65, which give or will give them four or more comprehensive schools or 20 per cent. or more of their secondary school children in comprehensive schools:

Birmingham. Manchester.
Breconshire. Monmouthshire.
Caernarvonshire. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Cardiganshire. Pembrokeshire.
Coventry. Radnorshire.
Devon. Shropshire.
Dorset. Staffordshire.
Ealing. Sunderland.
Essex. Sussex (West).
Glamorganshire. Swansea.
Inner London. West Bromwich.
Lancashire. Westmorland.
Leeds. Wiltshire.
Leicestershire. Yorks (West Riding).
Liverpool.

* Every authority mentioned in paragraph 2 also appears in a subsequent paragraph.

In addition 23 authorities have a scheme approved for a smaller part of their area or already have one or more comprehensive schools.

3. A further 68 authorities have submitted proposals; of these, 55 are schemes which cover the whole of an authority's area or complete a partial scheme already implemented or approved, while 13 cover part (in some cases a major part) of the authority's area:

Barking. Derbyshire.
Barnsley. Devon.
Barrow-in-Furness. Ealing.
Bedfordshire. Enfield.
Berkshire. Essex.
Bexley. Flintshire.
Birkenhead. Gateshead.
Blackburn. Gloucester.
Blackpool. Gloucestershire.
Bolton. Great Yarmouth.
Burton-upon-Trent. Grimsby.
Burnley. Haringey.
Caernarvonshire. Herefordshire.
Carlisle. Hertfordshire.
Carmarthenshire. Hillingdon.
Cumberland. Hounslow.
Denbighshire. Huddersfield.
Derby. Inner London.

Kent. St. Helens.
Kingston-upon-Hull. Sheffield.
Kingston-upon-Thames. Somerset.
Southend-on-Sea.
Lancashire. Staffordshire.
Leicestershire. Stoke-on-Trent.
Lincolnshire (Holland) Suffolk (East).
Surrey.
Lincolnshire (Lindsey) Sussex (East).
Sussex (West).
Merthyr Tydfil. Swansea.
Monmouthshire. Tynemouth.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Waltham Forest.
Nottinghamshire. Wigan.
Pembrokeshire. Wiltshire.
Redbridge. Yorkshire(East Riding).
Richmond-upon-Thames.
Yorkshire(West Riding).
Rotherham.

4. I have agreed to extensions of time for up to nine months to enable the following 16 authorities to complete the preparation of their submissions:

Bath. Lincolnshire (Kesteven)
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. .
Rutland.
Dewsbury. Solihull.
Dudley. South Shields.
Halifax. Walsall.
Harrow. Warley.
Hastings. West Bromwich.
Havering. Wolverhampton.

5. In the case or the following 59 authorities, some of which already have partial schemes implemented or approved (see paragraph 2), I understand that schemes (or, in the above cases, residual schemes) are being prepared and I expect the majority of these to be submitted within a matter of months:

Barnet. Newham.
Bootle. Norfolk.
Breconshire. Northampton.
Brighton. Northamptonshire.
Bromley. Northumberland.
Buckinghamshire. Norwich.
Bury. Nottingham.
Canterbury. Oxford.
Cardiganshire. Oxfordshire.
Cheshire. Plymouth.
Chester. Portsmouth.
Cornwall. Preston.
Coventry. Radnorshire
Croydon. Reading.
Dorset. Salford.
Durham. Shropshire.
Eastbourne. Southampton.
Exeter. Southport.
Glamorganshire. Stockport.
Hampshire. Suffolk (West).
Huntingdon and Peterborough. Sunderland.
Sutton.
Ipswich. Wallasey.
Isles of Scilly. Warrington.
Isle of Wight. Warwickshire.
Leeds. West Hartlepool.
Leicester. Worcestershire.
Lincoln. York.
Liverpool. Yorkshire (North Riding).
Manchester.

6. The position in one case, Birmingham, is not clear and three authorities have declined to submit a scheme:

Bournemouth. Worcester.
Westmorland.

7. All schemes mentioned in this Answer cover county schools but in the majority of cases negotiations with those responsible for voluntary and direct grant schools have not yet been completed.