§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the local education authorities which have not yet abolished selection, as a determining feature, from secondary education.
§ Mr. ArmstrongThe information is as follows
Of the 96 local education authorities in England only one, the London borough of Kingston-upon Thames, has submitted no proposals to eliminate selection in secondary education in its area. Proposals have been 461W approved to reorganise schools on comprehensive lines in parts of the areas of 73 other authorities, as follows—
Barnet Worcester Bexley Hertfordshire Bromley Humberside Hillingdon Kent Redbridge Kirklees Sutton Knowsley Lancashire Inner London Leeds Leicestershire Avon Lincolnshire Barnsley Walsall Bedfordshire West Sussex Berkshire Wigan Birmingham Liverpool Bolton Norfolk Bradford Northamptonshire Buckinghamshire Northumberland Bury North Yorkshire Calderdale Nottinghamshire Cheshire Oldham Cleveland Oxfordshire Cornwall Rotherham Trafford Saint Helens Wakefield Salop Warwickshire Sandwell Coventry Sefton Cumbria Solihull Derbyshire Somerset Devon South Tyneside Doncaster Staffordshire Dorset Stockport Dudley Suffolk Durham Sunderland East Sussex Surrey Essex Tameside Gloucestershire Wiltshire Hampshire Wirral Hereford and Wolverhampton The remaining 22 authorities have received approval to proposals to complete reorganisation in their maintained schools on comprehensive lines, with some voluntary school exceptions. These authorities are:
Barking† Richmond upon Brent† Thames*† Croydon*† Waltham Forest† Ealing Cambridgeshire Enfield*† Gateshead*† Haringey*† Isle of Wight† Harrow Manchester† Havering* Newcastle upon Hounslow Tyne*† Merton† North Tyneside† Newham† Rochdale† Salford* Sheffield* *Voluntary school exceptions †Proposals fully implemented.