§ 34. Sir E. Boyleasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a further statement on the creation of a new technological university in the North-East.
§ Mr. CroslandI have nothing to add to my statements of 24th February and 25th March.
§ Sir E. BoyleIs not that reply very disappointing because the right hon. Gentleman made it plain in the debate on 25th March that this matter, as he said at the time, was being urgently considered? Is he aware that, in answer to his earlier challenge, we believe that the choice of priorities in educational expenditure by the party opposite has been utterly wrong?
§ Mr. CroslandThe right hon. Member has a great deal of experience of educational cuts from his own period in office. The priorities chosen by this Government for six months' deferment are not more unfavourable to education than the cuts made under his Administration.
§ Mr. SpeakerOrder. These supplementaries are wide of the original Question.