To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on the effects of the Greenwich judgment on the selection of schools.

The Greenwich judgment widened the choice of school available to some parents by requiring applications from those living outside a local authority's area to be considered in the same way as those living within it. At our request, the London Boroughs Association and individual local authorities have submitted evidence about the effects of the Greenwich judgment on school admissions in 1991. I am considering the evidence and will give my conclusions soon.