§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many grant-maintained schools have been approved so far in the secondary sector.
§ Mr. Robin SquireTo date, 559 secondary schools have been approved for self-governing—grant-maintained —status.
§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many pupils are now being taught in grant-maintained schools; and what is the expected number by August 1994.
§ Mr. Robin SquireMore than half a million pupils are currently being educated in over 800 self-governing—grant-maintained—schools.
Over 160 more schools have already been approved to become self-governing later this year or have applications in the pipeline, and there is continuing demand for parental ballots on the question of self-governing status. The number of pupils in self-governing schools will therefore continue to grow. The rate of growth will depend on the views of parents in ballots, and on the merits of the applications submitted to my right hon. Friend.
§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list(a) the political control and (b) the number of grant-maintained schools in each local education authority.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe information requested is as follows:74W
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LEA Political control Number of self-governing schools operating at 11 January1994 Avon NOC 2 Barking Lab 0 Barnet Con 11 Barnsley Lab 0 Bedfordshire NOC 13 Berkshire Lab/LD/Ind 17 Bexley Con 6 Birmingham Lab 18 Bolton Lab 4 Bradford Lab 7 Brent Con/Ind 9 Bromley Con 13 Buckinghamshire Con 15 Bury Lab minority 1 Calderdale NOC 6 Cambridgeshire LD/Lab 22 Camden Lab 2 Cheshire Con/LD 6 City Ind 0 Cleveland Lab 0 Cornwall LD 0 Coventry Lab 0 Croydon Con 6 Cumbria Lab minority 21 Derbyshire Lab 21 Devon LD minority 7 Doncaster Lab 0 Dorset LD 10 Dudley Lab 7 Durham Lab 0 Ealing Con 9 East Sussex LD/Lab 0 Enfield Con 6 76W
LEA Political control Number of self-governing schools operating at 11 January1994 Essex Lab/LD 117 Gateshead Lab 0 Gloucestershire NOC 29 Greenwich Lab 0 Hackney Lab 0 Hammersmith Lab 1 Hampshire LD/Lab/Ind 30 Haringey Lab 0 Harrow Con 1 Havering Lab minority 4 Hereford and Worcester Lab/LD 5 Hertfordshire NOC 25 Hillingdon Lab 23 Hounslow Lab 2 Humberside Lab 2 Isle of Wight LD 0 Isles of Scilly Ind 0 Islington Kensington Lab 0 Kent Con 2 Kingston-upon-Thames NOC 72 Kirklees Lab 2 Knowsley Lab 1 Lambeth Lab minority 10 Lancashire Lab 9 Leeds Lab 2 Leicestershire NOC 5 Lewisham Lab 1 Lincolnshire Lab/LD 44 Liverpool Lab minority 3 Manchester Lab 0 Merton Lab 0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Lab 0 Newham Lab 1 Norfolk Lab minority 23 North Yorkshire NOC 0 North Tyneside Lab 0 Northamptonshire Lab 21 Northumberland Lab 1 Nottinghamshire Lab 3 Oldham Lab 0 Oxfordshire NOC 1 Redbridge Con 1 Richmond upon Thames LD 0 Rochdale Con/LD 4 Rotherham Lab 0 Salford Lab 1 Sandwell Lab 1 Sefton NOC 0 Sheffield Lab 6 Shropshire Lab/LD 6 Solihull Con/Ind 1 Somerset LD 2 South Tyneside Lab 0 Southwark Lab 9 St. Helens Lab 0 Staffordshire Lab 6 Stockport NOC 0 Suffolk Lab/LD 0 Sunderland Lab 0 Surrey Con/LD 22 Sutton LD 11 Tameside Lab 3 Tower Hamlets LD 1 Trafford Con 4 Wakefield Lab 0 Walsall Con/Ind 8 Waltham Forest Lab 2 Wandsworth Con 8 Warwickshire Lab minority 8 West Sussex LD minority 0 Westminster Con 0
LEA Political control Number of self-governing schools operating at 11 January1994 Wigan Lab 0 Wiltshire NOC 19 Wirral NOC 2 Wolverhampton Con minority 3 Key: Con = Conservative Ind = Independent Lab = Labour LD = Liberal Democrat NOC = No overall control Notes:
1. No Overall Control. Such councils are not controlled by any party or group of parties.
2. Where several parties are shown—Lab/LD/Ind—the authority is being run by a joint administration of some sort. This does not mean that there will necessarily have been a formal pact. In several cases the joint administration will be as a result of an informal understanding of some kind.