§ Dr. KumarTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if the Government's programme for opening of new city technology colleges is on target.
§ Mr. EggarThe CTC programme is making excellent progress. Thirteen colleges are already established and running, and two more will be open by autumn next year. In addition, the extension of CTC principles and practice into the rest of the maintained system is now under way. Indeed my right hon. and learned Friend announced on 15 January the establishment, with the joint support of British Aerospace, of Hutton grammar school in Lancashire as the first voluntary-aided technology school.