§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement about the Government's plans to provide for more open enrolment to schools.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerI intend to bring forward legislation to change the present arrangements for admissions to schools so that local education authorities and governing bodies, depending on who is responsible for admissions policy at any particular school, would be required to admit pupils up to the limit of that school's available capacity.
I am today publishing a consultation document which develops the proposal I first announced in a public speech on 1 May. I shall be inviting comments by 16 September 1987. Copies of the document have been placed in the Library.