§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many assisted places were allocated at 11-plus in 1981 in the area of each of the local education authorities in England and Wales; and what was the average level of grant paid.
§ Dr. BoysonThe take up of assisted places at 11 to 13 in 1981 at schools in the areas of English local education authorities was as follows:
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Number Barking and Dagenham — Barnet 9 Bexley — Brent — Bromley 43 Croydon 71 Ealing 24 Enfield — Haringey 5 Harrow 28 Havering — Hillingdon 4 Hounslow — Kingston-upon-Thames 23 Merton 23 Newham — Redbridge 28 Richmond-upon—Thames 48 Sutton 12 Waltham Forest 16 Inner London 389 Birmingham 71 Coventry 29 Dudley — Sandwell — Solihull — Walsall — Wolverhampton 40 Knowsley — Liverpool 92 St. Helens — Sefton 75 Wirral 109 Bolton 67 Bury 54
Number Manchester 131 Oldham 45 Rochdale — Salford — Stockport 52 Tameside — Trafford 17 Wigan — Barnsley — Doncaster — Rotherham — Sheffield 18 Bradford 35 Calderdale — Kirklees 37 Leeds 73 Wakefield 37 Gateshead — Newcastle-upon-Tyne 120 North Tyneside — South Tyneside — Sunderland — Isles of Scilly — Avon 189 Bedfordshire 80 Berkshire 31 Buckinghamshire — Cambridgeshire 35 Cheshire 64 Cleveland — Cornwall 20 Cumbria 20 Derbyshire 25 Devon 89 Dorset 27 Durham — East Sussex 40 Essex 42 Gloucestershire 7 Hampshire 172 Hereford and Worcester 59 Hertfordshire 116 Humberside 43 Isle of Wight — Kent 42 Lancashire 124 Leicestershire 31 Lincolnshire 17 Norfolk 46 North Yorkshire 12 Northamptonshire 42 Northumberland — Nottinghamshire 30 Oxfordshire 69 Shropshire 14 Somerset 74 Staffordshire 78 Suffolk 65 Surrey 99 Warwickshire 40 West Sussex — Wiltshire 7 The average assistance granted to each pupil was, from provisional figures, £1,110. Questions about the assisted places scheme in Wales are for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.