§ Mr. Ashleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which local education authorities since November 1982 have sought his permission to change their articles of government for secondary schools; which of these authorities were given permission; which were denied permission; and, in each case, what were the reasons for the refusal.
§ Mr. Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 9 July 1985, c. 382]: The information requested is as follows:
Approved
- Barnet
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Cornwall
- Durham
- Humberside
- Knowsley
- Leeds
- Stockport
- Surrey
- Wakefield
Not Approved
- Bolton
- Calderdale
- Derbyshire
- Enfield
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Haringey
- Hounslow
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- Norfolk
- Northamptonshire
- North Yorkshire
- Sheffield
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Sunderland
Under Consideration
- Barnsley
- Bedfordshire
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State/Territory Island/Port (Where Appropriate) Number of Visits 1983 1984 *1985 Anguilla 2 1 0 Antigua St. John's 5 6 12 Bahamas Cat Island 1 0 0 Freeport 5 6 3 Nassau 5 6 3 Barbados Bridgetown 9 13 7 Belize 12 9 4 British Virgin Islands Virgina Gorda 2 3 1 Road Town, Tortola 4 10 1 Cayman Islands Cayman Brac 2 2 0 Grand Cayman 4 3 3 Colombia Cartagena 1 0 0 Dominica 2 3 3 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 2 0 0 Grenada 0 2 2 Guadaloupe 2 0 0 Haiti Port-au-Prince 0 2 0 Jamaica Kingston 6 1 0 Montego Bay 1 1 0 Ocho Rios 1 0 0 Port Antonio 2 0 0 Martinique Fort-de-France 0 2 0 Montserrat Plymouth 3 3 1 Netherlands Antilles Curacao 0 2 0
- Bromley
- Liverpool
- Newham
- Nottinghamshire
- Sandwell
- West Sussex
The proposals not approved were incompatible with the Government's policies on school government and, in particular, either purported to give powers to the local education authority to override actions properly taken by the governors and headteacher under other provisions of the articles or otherwise sought to confer too great powers on the local education authority at the expense of the governing body.