HC Deb 03 April 1974 vol 871 c1284

Mr. Hamish Gray, supported by Mr. Hector Monro, Mr. Teddy Taylor, Mr. George Younger, Mr. Russell Johnston, Mr. Donald Stewart, Sir John Gilmour, Mr. Iain Sproat, Mr. Michael Clark Hutchison, Mr. James Sillars, Mr. Harry Ewing, and Mr. Anthony Stodart, 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 3rd May and to be printed. [Bill 21.]