§ Mr. Knoxasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the proportion of children in Staffordshire taught in classes of (a) under 20 pupils, (b) 20 to 30 pupils, (c) 30 to 40 pupils and (d) over 40 pupils in each of the last five years.
§ Sir Keith JosephI refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Stevens) on 6 July 1984 at columns 315–28. This answer was provided to inform a wider discussion on class sizes, when it was decided, exceptionally, to incur the cost involved. To provide the further information now requested would incur disproportionate cost.