Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 8 December 1949.
Mrs Leah Manning
, Epping
12:00,
8 December 1949
As the examination at 11 plus can never be a just criterion of a child's future development, is it not a very great waste to have empty places in this type of secondary school when there are children who are willing to enter and parents who are anxious that their children should enter?