§ Mr. Iain Millsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will seek to amend the law to remove from education authorities the discretion to refuse applications from children living in other education authority areas for places in selective schools in the former authority's area.
§ Dr. BoysonAn authority's first obligation must be to the children of its area: for the law to give an equal claim on places in its schools to extra-district children would be inappropriate.