§ Mr. BradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list his decisions on each school from which he has considered applications for grant-maintained status since 1 May 1997, indicating the grounds for his decision. [24081]
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§ Mr. ByersThe table lists decisions on applications for grant-maintained status since 1 May 1997. Each proposal was decided on its individual merits. Factors taken into account included the following
the effect of the proposals on the standard of educational provision in the area generally;the quality of education at the school;the demand for places at the school;the financial viability of the school;the financial management of the school;the cost implications of the proposals;the acceptability of the admission policy of the school;the views of interested parties, including parents and other local residents, the LEA, other schools, the FAS and FEFC, and, in the case of Church schools, the Diocese or Trustees;the strength of support for GM status demonstrated by the ballot; the commitment of the head and governing body to GM status.
LEA School name Approved Bedfordshire Westoning Lower School Birmingham St. Paul's Community School Croydon Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School1 Hertfordshire Jewish Community Day School1 Lambeth Julian's Primary School Southwark Surrey Square Grant-maintained Infant School Southwark Surrey Square Grant-maintained Junior School Minded to approve subject to certain modifications Barnet Matilda Marks Kennedy School1 Birmingham 1 Al Furqan Muslim Primary School Brent Islamia Primary School1 Rejected Barnet Pardes House and Beis Yaskov School Bedfordshire Shortstown Lower School Brent Torah Temimah Primary School1 Bradford Stoney Lee Middle School Buckinghamshire Chartridge County Combined School Devon Mount St. Mary's Convent School1 Devon Ratcliffe Special School Gloucestershire Oakdene Special School Hampshire Rookwood County Infant School Hampshire The Foxbury Special School Kent Amherst County Junior School Kent St. Thomas of Canterbury School Kent Woodchurch CE Primary School Lancashire The Maharishi School1 Stockport Doodfield Primary School Surrey St. Peter and St. Paul CE Primary Surrey The Ashford High School Tower Hamlets Bishop Challoner R. C. School Trafford Stretford Grammar School Warwickshire Ilmington CE Primary School Walsall Birchills CE Primary Community School West Sussex Herbert Shiner School Wiltshire Broad Hinton CE Primary School Wiltshire Leigh Primary School York Fulford Cross Special School 1 Proposals for new GM schools by promoters.