Grammar Schools
Commons · Question 7848 · Tabled 8 Oct 2024 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 16 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Joy Morrissey
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy not to amend the (a) status of existing grammar schools and (b) right of local areas to operate academic selection.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 16 Oct 2024
There are 163 grammar schools in England that are located across 35 local authority areas. The government does not plan to allow any new grammar schools to open nor to legislate to remove the right of existing grammar schools to select by ability.