HC Deb 16 February 1971 vol 811 cc437-8W
Mr. Elystan Morgan

asked the Secretary of State for Wales how many education authorities in Wales have adopted a scheme of comprehensive education in their secondary schools.

Mr. Peter Thomas

All of the local education authorities in Wales, either for part or the whole of their areas, have adopted schemes of comprehensive education.

Mr. Elystan Morgan

asked the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of children in secondary schools in Wales receive a comprehensive type of education; what is the percentage for Cardigan-shire; and what is the corresponding figure for the whole of the United Kingdom.

Mr. Peter Thomas

The percentages of children in secondary schools in Cardigan-shire, Wales and England and Wales, receiving a comprehensive type of education in January, 1970, were respectively 58.3 per cent., 52.6 per cent. and 31.1 per cent. The figures for the United Kingdom as a whole are not readily available.