HC Deb 16 July 1990 vol 176 c376W
Mr. Frank Field

To ask the Secretary of State For Education and Science if he is now in a position to reply to the letter from the hon. Member for Birkenhead dated 22 February about the local management of schools in Wirral.

Mrs. Rumbold

No. In my reply of 19 March to the hon. Member's letter of 22 February I promised to write again when the statutory approval of Wirral local education authority's scheme for the local management of schools had been completed; at present, we are in consultation with the authority over proposed modifications to its scheme submission.