HC Deb 25 April 1988 vol 132 c5W
Mr. Dobson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, further to the answer by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State on 19 April,Official Report, column 669, on what information he based his statement that the Inner London parents' ballot was not a ballot of all Inner London education authority parents.

Mr. Dunn

My statement reflected the fact that the ballot gave only one vote to couples with a single child attending an ILEA school, and gave no vote to those parents in the Inner London education authority area who, perhaps because of dissatisfaction with ILEA, have chosen for their children either a school maintained by another authority, or an independent school.