AG Waring, of Coombe Meadows, Chillington, writes:

I was surprised to read in the that Sarah Wollaston believes ‘100 per cent faith schools can have nothing to contribute to a more integrated and cohesive society’, Gazette, September 23. Perhaps she can supply evidence to support her statement.

Personally I can speak only from a Catholic perspective.

I was fortunate to receive a rounded education in a Catholic grammar school, the intake of which included non-Catholics as well as children from deprived areas. There was no discrimination in contrast with the days of the Coalition, which imposed a 50 per cent cap on faith schools’ intakes of their co-religionists. How ­discriminatory is that?

Happily, that cap will shortly be revoked.

In the experience of many observers, faith schools ­promote integration, ethnic diversity and educational ­excellence, and if our MP is alert she should be aware that many parents clamour to place their children in such schools because they recognise these qualities.

In short, it is the ethos ­promoted by faith schools that parents find attractive.

Sarah Wollaston is quoted as saying that she ‘will be voting against religious segregation of our children’. Does that mean she is happy to deny parents the right to the choose how their children are educated?

Perhaps she should listen more carefully to her ­constituents.