§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to publish a timetable for(a) the removal of the differences in funding between grant-maintained and local education authority schools, (b) the removal of grant-maintained status, (c)transferring responsibility for planning of all school places to the local education authorities and (d)introducing legislation to reverse the Greenwich judgment; and if he will make a statement. [3028]
§ Mr. ByersOur plans for schools will be set out in a White Paper which we shall be publishing shortly. That will be followed by legislation in the Autumn.