HC Deb 15 June 1990 vol 174 cc353-4W
Mr. Marlow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science in how many schools the pupil population is in excess of 90 per cent. of any one ethnic minority(a) in the public sector and (b) in the private sector; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Alan Howarth

The information requested is not available centrally, but my right hon. Friend has announced in circular No. 16/89 that ethnic statistics will be collected by local education authorities from schools maintained by them as from September 1990. Aggregated local education authority returns will be submitted to the Department annually from June 1991.