Middle Schools (Transfer of Pupils)

HC Deb 27 October 1966 vol 734 cc227-8W

Mr. Crowder

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will list the local education authorities to which he has given provisional or formal consent to the transfer of pupils from primary to secondary education at an age other than 11 plus;

(2) if he will list the local education authorities to which he has given provisional or formal consent for the establishment of middle schools.

Mr. Crosland

So far 19 local education authorities have submitted proposals involving the establishment of one or more middle schools and the transfer of pupils from primary to secondary education at an age other than 11 plus. I have given statutory approval to the proposal of one authority, Bradford, and provisional consent to four others, which will require my statutory approval before they can be implemented: Hertfordshire (Royston and Buntingford areas), Kent (Isle of Sheppey), Kingston-upon-Hull and the West Riding of Yorkshire (Hems-worth Division). Proposals from the remaining 14 authorities, together with proposals for two further Divisions of the West Riding, are still under consideration.