HC Deb 09 February 1990 vol 166 cc794-5W
Mr. Fatchett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list those local education authorities whose schemes for local management of schools have been(a) approved, (b) rejected and (c) upon which no decision has been made.

Mrs. Rumbold

We have announced our approval decisions on all 97 local education authorities' LMS schemes which were submitted last autumn. The following local education authorities have either received formal approval for their schemes or are being consulted on modifications prior to approval for implementation in April 1990:

  • Avon
  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Barnet
  • Barnsley
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Bexley
  • Birmingham
  • Bolton
  • Bradford
  • Brent
  • Bromley
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Bury
  • Calderdale
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cleveland
  • Cornwall
  • Coventry
  • Cumbria
  • Derbyshire
  • Devon
  • Doncaster
  • Dorset
  • Dudley
  • Durham
  • Ealing
  • East Sussex
  • Enfield
  • Essex
  • Gateshead
  • Gloucestershire
  • Hampshire
  • Haringey
  • Harrow
  • Havering
  • Hillingdon
  • Hounslow
  • Humberside
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kent
  • Kingston
  • Kirklees
  • 795
  • Knowsley
  • Lancashire
  • Leeds
  • Lincolnshire
  • Liverpool
  • Manchester
  • Merton
  • Newcastle
  • Norfolk
  • North Tyneside
  • North Yorkshire
  • Northamptonshire
  • Northumberland
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oldham
  • Oxfordshire
  • Redbridge
  • Richmond
  • Rochdale
  • Rotherham
  • Sandwell
  • Salford
  • Sefton
  • Sheffield
  • Shropshire
  • Solihull
  • Somerset
  • South Tyneside
  • Staffordshire
  • St. Helens
  • Stockport
  • Suffolk
  • Sunderland
  • Surrey
  • Sutton
  • Tameside
  • Trafford
  • Wakefield
  • Walsall
  • Waltham Forest
  • Warwickshire
  • West Sussex
  • Westminster
  • Wigan
  • Wiltshire
  • Wirral
  • Wolverhampton

LEAs whose schemes cannot be approved in their present form are Croydon, Hereford and Worcester, Hertfordshire, the Isles of Scilly, Leicestershire and Newham.