To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science which local education authorities intend to retain middle school systems; and which have proposals to change status from middle school systems to transfer to secondary provision at 11 years.

The local education authorities that operate middle school systems are listed in the table:

• Barnsley
• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Birmingham
• Bradford
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Devon
• Doncaster
• Dorset
• Dudley
• Ealing
• East Sussex
• Hampshire
• Harrow
• Hereford and Worcester
• Hertfordshire
• Humberside
• Isle of Wight
• Kent
• Kirklees
• Leicestershire
• Leeds
• Merton
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Norfolk
• North Tyneside
• North Yorkshire
• Northamptonshire
• Northumberland
• Nottinghamshire
• Oxfordshire
• Rochdale
• Sheffield
• Shropshire
• Somerset
• Staffordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• Wakefield
• Warwickshire
• West Sussex
• Wiltshire

Of these authorities, only Leeds has published statutory proposals to change to a system of primary-secondary provision which are currently under consideration. In addition, the Secretary of State has approved proposals for Shropshire, Humberside, Rochdale and Barnsley LEAs which are still to be implemented, all in September 1990.