HC Deb 28 November 1973 vol 865 c412

Mr. Alex Eadie, supported by Mr. James Sillars, Mr. Harry Ewing, Mr. John Robertson, Mr. Adam Hunter, Mr. Dick Douglas, Mr. David Lambie, Mr. Tom Oswald, Mr. Russell Johnston, Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison, Sir John Gilmour, and Mr. George Machin, presented a Bill to make provision as respects Scotland for discontinuing the ascertainment of mentally-handicapped children as unsuitable for education at school, to impose a duty on education authorities to provide for the education of such children whether accommodated in a hospital within the meaning of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1960 or otherwise, and for purposes connected therewith. And the same was read the First time; and ordered to be read a Second time upon Friday 1st March and to be printed. [Bill 25.]