HC Deb 09 July 1998 vol 315 c1339

10.2 pm

Mr. Ben Chapman (Wirral, South)

There is great concern in Wirral, South about the plans of the board of Wirral Metropolitan college to close the Carlett Park site. That facility is a highly prized asset to further education in the area, and my constituents are outraged at the prospect of its closure. The petition, containing some 7,000 signatures, calls for a review by the Further Education Funding Council of the decision by the board of Wirral Metropolitan college. It states: Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House shall urge the FEFC to consider the residents' plight and investigate the reasons for the closure of a much used and highly valued local education facility, without which further education in this part of the Wirral would surely suffer. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

To lie upon the Table.