§ 34. Mr. Blackburnasked the Minister of Education in which year's programme it is contemplated that new schools at Millbrook, Stalybridge, and Newton, Hyde, are to be included.
§ Miss HorsbrughAlthough the Cheshire local education authority did not ask me to include in their 1954–55 programme schools at either of these places, I thought it wise to include a primary school for Newton, Hyde, in the reserve list to that programme. I cannot say when it will be possible to authorise a new school at Millbrook. Stalybridge.
§ Mr. BlackburnWhile thanking the Minister for the fact that there is some hope in the foreseeable future, at any rate at Newton, Hyde, may I ask whether she 1525 thinks it is not time that this area of Cheshire was given more generous treatment? Would the right hon. Lady agree that the overcrowded conditions and the lack of amenities in these two schools are as bad as anywhere in the country? Is it not a fact that the new school at Newton Hyde would have been built in 1950 but for the difficulties about a site, and would definitely have been started in December, 1951, if she had not postponed all school building?
§ Miss HorsbrughNo, I think we have a better arrangement. As I have pointed out to the hon. Gentleman, although the Cheshire local authority did not ask me to do so I have put one school into the reserve building programme so that we may even get it during this next building year.
§ Mr. BlackburnThe only hope we have is that it will be this century.