§ Mr. Lomasasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the percentage of immigrant school children who have little or no knowledge of English admitted to schools in local authority areas of over 100,000 population.
§ Mr. Edward ShortAbout 25 per cent. of immigrant pupils are estimated to need some special tuition in English; but only a minority of these would be regarded as having little or no knowledge of the language.
Church of England Voluntary Aided Church of England Voluntary Controlled Roman Catholic County Primary Birmingham 9.0 15.1 1.0 11.1 Walsall 0.6 7.9 5.8 6.3 Warley 15.7 7.7 6.9 9.8 West Bromwich 5.0 16.8 2.9 5.4 Wolverhampton 28.9 27.1 8.4 11.1 I regret that the figures given in reply to a similar Question on 4th July were calculated on the basis of incomplete statistics.—[Vol. 767, c. 264.]