§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list in the Official Report those organisations who were consulted about the 60 per cent. requirement in relation to children entering the assisted places scheme from the maintained sector; and whether he will give details of the form of the consultative process.
§ Mr. Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 22 July 1985 c. 349]: The minimum proportion of entrants from the maintained sector was one of the matters covered in the general consultative document issued in July 1979 to the local authority associations, voluntary bodies, teachers' associations and representatives of the independent schools.
§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will state the number of pupils who, at the time of selection for an assisted place, were 549W choirboys; what proportion of the relevant age group entering the scheme this represents; and what proportion of all assisted places pupils entering the scheme from the private sector this represents.
§ Mr. Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 22 July 1985, c. 350]: Information on individual pupils taking part in the assisted places scheme is not collected by the Department.
§ Mr. Freudasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list in the Official Report a breakdown by age group of the pupils entering the assisted places scheme who attended a private school at the time of their selection for the scheme; and how many and what proportion of each group attended the same school before and after their entry to the scheme.
§ Mr Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 22 July 1985, c. 350]: Of the pupils admitted to assisted places in the school year 1984–85, 1,129 at ages 11–15 and 609 sixth formers came from other than publicly maintained schools. Information on whether this involved a change of school is not collected by the Department.