HC Deb 11 July 1994 vol 246 cc461-2W
Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish the schemes he has approved from the local management of special schools submitted to him by local education authorities.

Sir Wyn Roberts

My right hon. Friend has no plans to do so. The extension of the local management of schools

Grant maintained All grant maintained primary and Secondary schools
Primary schools secondary schools
1Number 2Per cent. 1Number 2Per cent. 1Number 2Per cent.
Clwyd 442 1.1 3,349 12.3 3,791 5.6
Dyfed 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gwent 220 0.5 1,385 4.7 1,605 2.2
Gwynedd 218 1.1 0 0 218 0.6
Mid Glamorgan 0 0 0 0 0 0
Powys 36 0.3 0 0 36 0.2
South Glamorgan 0 0 2,971 10.9 2,971 4.4
West Glamorgan 0 0 933 4.0 933 1.5
Wales 916 0.3 8,638 4.5 9,554 2.0
1Pupil numbers as at January 1993 (which is the latest available date), and are for all schools which were grant maintained as at April 1994.
2Percentages are calculated as a proportion of the total number of full time and part time pupils in the same sector for the LEA.

Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales (1) what numbers and percentages of schools are grant-maintained in Wales; and what are the figures for each local eduction authority;

arrangements to special schools was deemed a significant variation to a local education authority's LMS scheme and as such it is for the local authority to publish the changes in accordance with section 42 of the Education Reform Act 1988 and the Education (Publication of Schemes for Financing Schools) Regulations 1993.

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