HC Deb 24 March 1994 vol 240 cc405-6W
Mr. Pawsey

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what number and percentage of maintained secondary school pupils are educated in grammar schools in the latest year for which information is available; what were the comparable figures for the years in which general elections were held since 1964; and what were the percentage point changes between these dates.

Mr. Patten

The information is as follows:

and their age range. Schools already in existence when the 1981 standards were introduced have until 1996 to comply with these standards.

Copies of the 1981 regulations and the previous 1972 regulations are available from the Library.