HC Deb 20 March 1996 vol 274 c221W
24. Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what proportion of(a) primary school and (b) secondary school children gained admission to the school of first choice in England in (i) 1994 and (ii) 1995. [20148]

Mrs. Gillan

This information is not collected centrally. Surveys commissioned by the Association of Metropolitan Authorities in 1992 and The Times in 1993 suggested that some 90 per cent. of parents gained a place at their first choice school.