HC Deb 14 June 1991 vol 192 cc680-1W
Mr. Norris

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list local education authorities from which a secondary school has(a) voted for and (b) achieved grant-maintained status showing what proportion of its secondary provision such schools represent.

Mr. Eggar

The table gives the number and proportion (in percentage terms) of secondary schools within a local education authority which have:(a) voted in favour of seeking grant-maintained status; (b) voted in favour of seeking grant-maintained status and been approved for GM status.

(a) (b)
Local education authority Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Hammersmith 1 10 1 10
Kensington 1 20 1 20
Southwark 1 6 1 6
Tower Hamlets 1 7 1 7
Wandsworth 3 25 0 —
Barnet 2 9 2 9
Brent 3 20 1 7
Bromley 7 37 1 5
Croydon 1 4 0 —
Ealing 6 46 0 —
Hillingdon 10 56 4 22
Newham 1 7 1 7
Sutton 2 14 2 14
Waltham Forest 1 6 1 6
Birmingham 4 5 4 5
Dudley 2 8 1 4
Sandwell 1 4 1 4
Solihull 1 7 0 —
Wolverhampton 2 10 2 10
Bolton 1 6 1 6
Liverpool 1 3 1 3
Tameside 1 5 1 5
Wigan 1 4 0 —
Bradford 1 1 1 1
Calderdale 2 12 2 12
Kirkless 2 5 2 5
Avon 2 3 2 3
Bedfordshire 1 1 1 1
Berkshire 4 7 3 5
Buckinghamshire 3 7 3 7
Cambridgeshire 1 2 0 —
Cheshire 1 1 1 1
Cumbria 4 9 1 2
Derbyshire 2 3 2 3
Devon 1 1 1 1
Dorset 5 8 2 3
Essex 5 5 2 2

(a) (b)
Local education authority Number Per cent. Number Per cent.
Gloucestershire 6 14 4 9
Hampshire 3 3 2 2
Hertfordshire 6 6 3 4
Kent 22 15 5 3
Lancashire 4 4 4 4
Leicestershire 1 1 1 1
Lincolnshire 12 19 7 11
Norfolk 6 11 1 2
Northamptonshire 5 8 3 5
Nottinghamshire 1 1 0 —
Shropshire 1 3 1 3
Somerset 1 3 1 3
Surrey 7 12 1 2
Warwickshire 3 8 1 3
Wiltshire 1 2 1 2
Total 167 85

Notes:

(1) Column (a) lists the total number of schools in an authority which have voted in favour of seeking grant-maintained (GM) status. Some of these schools have yet to publish proposals, others have published proposals which Ministers will be considering soon or which they have already either approved or rejected.

(2) Column (b) lists the number of schools whose proposals have been approved. This includes schools which are already operating as GM schools and those which were approved for incorporation in September.