To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will place a copy of the flowchart of the specialist schools application procedure in the Library. [104417]

The 2003–04 edition of the guidance for specialist school applicants, to be published in May, will include a flowchart of the application process. The chart will set out the stages which schools applying for designation in October 2003 and March 2004 need to follow as they construct their specialist school development plans. Copies of the revised guidance for specialist school applicants will be placed in the Library when it is published.