§ Mr. Powellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he now expects to publish the figures for immigrant pupils in January, 1969, in view of the fact that most or all of these have been available on request from the respective local education authorities for not less than the past four months.
§ Miss BaconI regret that statistics of immigrant pupils in January, 1969, are not yet available. Individual local education authorities may be able to provide figures for their own areas from copies of the returns made to the Department, but a proper presentation of the national figures requires a complete analysis of the figures for all areas. I shall have this ready as soon as possible.
§ Mr. Powellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will extend his request to local education authorities in England and Wales for figures of immigrant pupils in January, 1970, so as to include as well as London and county boroughs, other divisions, such as Loughborough and Slough, where similar conditions as to population and immigrant percentage are known to be fulfilled.
§ Miss BaconInformation is collected from local education authorities in re-160W spect of every primary and secondary school with immigrant pupils. The standard form of presentation is to group the data by local education authority areas. Every effort is made to meet requests for information about smaller areas, but it would not be practicable to compile the statistics in such a way as to anticipate all requests.