§ Lord Pestonasked Her Majesty's Government:
(a) For which grammar schools or groups of grammar schools or selective areas have letters been received by Electoral Reform Ballot Services notifying an intention to organise a petition to trigger a ballot to open up these schools to children of all abilities;
(b) On which dates these letters were received;
(c) On which dates the writers of these letters were notified of the threshold number of signatures required for a valid petition; and
102WA(d) What is the threshold number of signatures required for each grammar school or group of grammar schools or area for which letters have been received. [HL352]
§ Baroness BlackstoneThe requested information is as follows:
a b c d Petition area and type Date of request to set a threshold Date on which threshold was set Threshold figure Barnet (group of 3 schools) 1 September 1999 25 November 1999 7,209 Birmingham (group of 2 schools) 1 September 1999 threshold not yet set Birmingham (group of 6 schools) 1September 1999 threshold not yet set Kent (whole area) 1 September 1999 threshold not yet set Ripon (stand-alone) 7 September 1999 26 October 1999 587 Sutton (whole area) 27 September 1999 2 December 1999 7.375 Trafford (whole area) 1 September 1999 13 December 1999 8.518