asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if she will publish a table giving the distribution by size of sixth forms in maintained secondary schools as a whole and in grammar schools, comprehensive schools and sixth form colleges, respectively, in 1976, showing in particular (a) the number of such sixth forms containing less than 50 pupils, between 50 pupils and 150 pupils and more than 150 pupils, and (b) the average size of sixth form in each of the three types of school; (2) if she will publish a table giving the distribution by size of sixth form classes in maintained secondary schools as a whole and in grammar schools, comprehensive schools and sixth form colleges, respectively, in 1976, showing in particular (a) the proportion of classes with fewer than five pupils, between five and 10 pupils and
| Maintained schools in England and Wales |
| Size of sixth form | Grammar | Comprehensive | Sixth form colleges | All secondary schools |
| 1–50 pupils | 21 | 802 | — | 1,306 |
| 51–150 pupils | 307 | 1,001 | 2 | 1,407 |
| 151 or more pupils | 149 | 311 | 66 | 533 |
| All schools with a sixth form | 477 | 2,114 | 68 | 3,246 |
| Average size of sixth form (pupils). | 130 | 82 | 420 | 86 |
| Maintained schools in England and Wales |
| Percentage |
| Grammar | Comprehensive | Sixth form colleges | All secondary schools |
| Percentage distribution of sixth form classes "as taught"— | | | | |
| with 1 to 5 pupils | 25 | 30 | 16 | 27·5 |
| with 6 to 10 pupils | 32 | 32 | 28 | 31·5 |
| with 11 or more pupils | 43 | 38 | 56 | 41·0 |
| 100 | 100 | 100 | 100·0 |
| Average size of sixth form classes (pupils). | 10·3 | 10·1 | 11·3 | 10·3 |
Sixth forms have been taken to comprise of pupils in secondary schools above school-leaving age at the commencement of the autumn term.