§ Mr. EDEasked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that the Surrey County Council purchased some time ago nine acres of land near Dorking Road, Epsom, for educational purposes, including the provision of Secondary, central and infants' schools; that approximately one acre of the site was reserved for an infant school to replace the existing West Hill council infants' school which has more than once been the subject of severe criticism by the local sanitary authority; and whether he will he prepared to sanction the erection of an infants' school on the site in question?
Mr. WOODI find that in November, 1920, the Board approved the local education authority's proposal for the purchase of nine acres of land for the provision of a new secondary school, with playing fields, a central school and an elementary school. The proposal did not include any allocation of portions of the site for the different purposes I have mentioned. On the 18th of this month I received from the local education authority a letter proposing the provision of an infants' department on the site. This matter is now under consideration.