To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is his policy on the inclusion by the grant-aided St. Louis R.C. voluntary grammar school, Ballymena, in its enrolment criteria of the statement, "Any prospective entrant must accept the Catholic ethos of the school".

Under the new open enrolment arrangements all secondary schools must have regard to parental preference. If they are oversubscribed the criteria which they will use in selecting pupils is a matter for the board of governors. I will be considering the need to issue further guidance on criteria in the light of experience in the 1990–91 school year.