HC Deb 02 March 1993 vol 220 cc121-2W
Mr. Byers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education 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.

Mr. Forth

A total of 928 schools have held ballots on grant-maintained status, of which 87 are Anglican and 91 are Roman Catholic. Detailed information is given in the table.

Anglican Roman Catholic
Operating 30 18
Approved and minded to approve 2 12
Proposals published 19 26
Proposals awaited 13 19

Anglican Roman Catholic
Proposals rejected 7 2
No votes 16 14

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