HC Deb 23 April 1959 vol 604 cc579-80
17 and 18. Mr. Wilkins

asked the Minister of Education (1) how many Bristol schools were damaged during the 12 major raids on the city during the last war; and how many school places such destruction represented;

(2) how many places resulting from war destruction were reinstated between the years 1945 to 1951, and 1952 to the last convenient date.

Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd

Twenty-two Bristol schools were almost wholly destroyed and five seriously damaged during the war. Of the 7,500 places lost, 1,360 were reinstated on the old sites between 1945 and 1951, and the remainder have been made good elsewhere.