HC Deb 10 May 1967 vol 746 cc1485-6
19. Mr. Brewis

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he will approve a site for the rebuilding of the Douglas-Ewart School, Newton Stewart.

Mr. Millan

Wigtownshire Education Authority has not yet sought my right hon. Friend's approval to a site. I understand, however, that at its meeting on Monday, 8th May, Wigtown County Council approved the education com- mittee's proposal to build a new comprehensive school on a site behind the existing school at Newton Stewart.

Mr. Brewis

Did not the hon. Gentleman's Department indicate that it would not allow the authority to build a new school in any circumstances?

Mr. Millan

I do not think that that is an accurate representation of what took place. What we did say was that, if any question of a completely new school was to be considered, there would have to be found a use for the new wing and gymnasium of the existing school which was completed only in 1959.