HC Deb 09 December 1965 vol 722 c588
28. Mr. Gurden

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many replacement projects are expected to be started in the first six months of the 1966–67 major school building programme.

Mr. Crosland

My Department does not decide the starting date for individual school building projects. It is not possible to forecast exactly which projects will start in any given period.

Mr. Gurden

Can the Minister tell me why projects are being set back six months, and why there are these delays which, I understood, were not to take place?

Mr. Crosland

No school building projects of any kind are subject to the six months deferment, so I am not clear at all what the hon. Member is talking of.