§ 30. Mr. Boyd-Carpenterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what savings he expects to derive in expenditure in the coming financial year from his policy of refusing to sanction improvements in the provision of secondary education in cases which had not complied with his request to submit schemes of reorganisation on comprehensive lines.
§ Mr. CroslandIn Circular 10/66 I said that I would not approve new secondary projects which would be incompatible with the introduction of a non-selective system of secondary education. This policy is not designed to 693 secure savings in expenditure but to ensure that in general secondary school building should be in line with Government policy.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterDoes the right hon. Gentleman's inability to quantify the savings which would result from this step mean that he accepts that this is just bluff?
§ Mr. CroslandOn the contrary, for precisely the opposite reason the savings to which the right hon. Gentleman refers will turn out to be wholly academic and hypothetical, because virtually no authorities have submitted proposals to us which are incompatible with the comprehensive system.