§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many appeals by parents against school allocations were received by the Secretary of State in 1970 and in the last year for which figures are available; and if she will list the latter figures by local education authority.
§ Miss Margaret Jackson:Information in the form requested is available only for the current year. The number of parental complaints against school allocations received this year up to the present time is as follows. These include complaints made by parents direct and complaints made by hon. Members on behalf of their constituents. A total of 1,185 complaints was received in 1977.
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PARENTAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST SCHOOL ALLOCATIONS LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY Barking 4 Barnet 1 Bexley 9 Bromley 31 Brent 2 Croydon 6 Ealing 5 Enfield 8 Haringey 2 Harrow 12 Havering. 8 Hillingdon 6 Hounslow 9 Kingston-upon-Thames 3 Merton 3 Newham 0 Redbridge. 15 Richmond-upon-Thames 0 Sutton 20 Waltham Forest 0 ILEA 61 Birmingham 4 Coventry 4 Dudley 0 Sandwell 6 Solihull 3 Walsall 10 Wolverhampton 5 Knowsley 4 Liverpool 8 St. Helens 3 Sefton 4 Wirral 33 Bolton 3 Bury 5
Manchester 27 Oldham 1 Rochdale 4 Salford 3 Stockport 6 Tameside 5 Trafford 24 Wigan 0 Barnsley 23 Doncaster 24 Rotherham 14 Sheffield 33 Bradford 1 Calderdale 7 Kirklees 12 Leeds 4 Wakefield 1 Gateshead 1 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0 North Tyneside 0 South Tyneside 0 Sunderland 3 Isles of Scilly 0 Avon 85 Bedfordshire 10 Berkshire 4 Buckinghamshire 6 Cambridgeshire 5 Cheshire 30 Cleveland 2 Cornwall 3 Cumbria 6 Derbyshire 2 Devon 10 Dorset 2 Durham 12 East Sussex 20 Essex 28 Gloucestershire 12 Hampshire 6 Hereford and Worcester 9 Hertfordshire 23 Humberside 21 Isle of Wight 10 Kent 45 Lancashire 30 Leicestershire 7 Lincolnshire 6 Norfolk 19 North Yorkshire 7 Northamptonshire 3 Northumberland 3 Nottinghamshire 7 Oxfordshire 2 Salop 3 Somerset 0 Staffordshire 21 Suffolk 4 Surrey 13 Warwickshire 25. West Sussex 12 Wiltshire 4 Total England 1,017