Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will give an undertaking that none of the direct grant schools which elect to remain in the maintained sector will be granted voluntary aided status.
§ Miss Joan LestorNo. My right hon. Friend expects most if not all direct grant schools which enter the maintained sector to do so as voluntary aided schools. All will do so as comprehensive schools within a local education authority's pattern of secondary education; that will be an indispensible condition of entry.