§ 2. Mr. Evelyn Kingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many schools in the South Dorset constituency still have no proper sanitation.
§ The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mrs. Shirley Williams)Only in one primary school is the sanitation not waterborne. In 15 others all the lavatories are in an outside block. In a further nine, and one secondary school, some are outside, some inside.
§ Mr. KingWill not the hon. Lady give priority to the provision of even the most elementary forms of hygiene in primary schools over the rather dubious and certainly not urgent forms of secondary reorganisation?
§ Mrs. WilliamsIt is basically a matter for the local education authority how it decides to spend the money it has for minor works. The Moreton Church of England Primary School, the one in which the sanitation is not waterborne, is to be closed shortly.