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Mr. Reed
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many places, at what schools and at what cost, were provided under the assisted places scheme in Leicestershire in (a) 1995–96 and (b) 1996–97. [6221]
Mr. Byers
The number of assisted places taken up and the cost of those places for each participating school in Leicestershire in academic years 1995–96 and 1996–97 are given in the following table:
| Assisted Places Scheme: Leicestershire | |||
| School name | Academic year 1995–96 | Academic year 1996–97 | |
| Dixie Grammar School | Number of assisted pupils | 0 | 7 |
| Cost of places £000s | 0 | 22 | |
| Leicester Grammar School | Number of assisted pupils | 53 | 65 |
| Cost of places £000s | 172 | 225 | |
| Leicester High School for Girls1 | Number of assisted pupils | 0 | 13 |
| Cost of places £000s | 0 | 43 | |
| Loughborough Grammar School | Number of assisted pupils | 123 | 140 |
| Cost of places £000s | 345 | 390 | |
| Loughborough High School | Number of assisted pupils | 94 | 103 |
| Cost of places £000s | 231 | 269 | |
| Oakham School | Number of assisted pupils | 33 | 39 |
| Cost of places £000s | 160 | 196 | |
| Ratcliffe College | Number of assisted pupils | 80 | 80 |
| Cost of places £000s | 362 | 345 | |
| 1 These schools joined the Assisted Places Scheme in September 1996. | |||