HC Deb 02 March 1967 vol 742 c676
9. Mr. Fowler

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has included any further projects in the school-building programme for 1967–68, in the light of the representations made to him by Salop County Council and the hon. Member for The Wrekin regarding the probable inadequacy of school facilities in the Dawley New Town area.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

No, Sir. The Shropshire Local Education Authority has been told that further secondary school building at Dawley will be authorised in the 1968–69 programme.

Mr. Fowler

Is my hon. Friend aware that by September, 1969, about 800 Birmingham schoolchildren will have moved into Dawley and that unless the Woodside Infants School and the Woodside Comprehensive School are begun as soon as possible there will be a very severe shortage of school places in Dawley?

Mrs. Williams

If my hon. Friend's predictions are borne out, it will be open to the local authority to ask the Department to allow a start to be made before the beginning of the 1968–69 programme year.