§ 54. Mr. Swinglerasked the Minister of Education if she will now make and publish a calculation of the number of school places required adequately to cater for the growing number of children in the schools and for the children moving to new areas; and if she will make this calculation the basis of determining her policy in the matter of school building.
§ Miss HorsbrughNo. I would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave him on 16th July and to my Department's reply to the Select Committee on Estimates, published as their Tenth Report.
§ Mr. Swinglerasked the Minister of Education how the estimate of 1,480,000 places, mentioned in the footnote of page 5 of her Department's reply to the Select Committee on Estimates, was arrived at.
§ Miss HorsbrughThis was explained in the answer which I gave the hon. Member on the 17th July, 1952. 1,480,000 represents the 1,593,000 mentioned in that reply, less the 110,000 written off by my predecessor when he decided to re-cast the school building programme on the basis of maintaining class sizes at the level existing at the end of 1949.