HC Deb 17 July 1979 vol 970 c439W
Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report the names of those education authorities in which selection at the age of 13 years is practised either throughout or in parts thereof.

Dr. Boyson

Selection at the age of 13 years was practised in September 1978 in some schools maintained by the following local education authorities:

  • Humberside
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cumbria
  • Kent
  • Lancashire