HC Deb 02 March 1993 vol 220 cc70-1W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the total number of schools which have held ballots on grant-maintained status; and how many of them are(a) Anglican and (b) Roman Catholic, listing in each category how many are (i) now operating as grant-maintained schools, (ii) have received approval for grant-maintained status, (iii) have published proposals and are awaiting a decision, (iv) have voted for grant-maintained status but not yet published proposals, (v) have had their proposals rejected and (vi) have voted against grant-maintained status.

Sir Wyn Roberts

Sixteen schools in Wales have balloted the parents of their pupils on the acquisition of grant maintained status. Of these one is an Anglican school and one a Roman Catholic. An application from the former is currently before me; the Roman Catholic school was incorporated as a grant maintained school on 1 January 1992.