§ Mrs. Ann TaylorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many schools, other than those 12 Departmental Property announced on 28 February, are at each stage of preparing an application to become grant-maintained technology colleges; and if he will name them.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThere are no separate formal stages in preparing an application to become a technology collage. Over 200 secondary schools have asked for information on the technology colleges initiative. We know that many of these are actively seeking to prepare applications, but we are not collecting centrally