§ Mr. Hicksasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when she expects to make an announcement concerning her replacement programme of primary schools built in the period before 1900 as relating to Cornwall.
§ Mrs. ThatcherThe first instalment of the primary school replacement programme, to start in 1972–73, includes an allocation of about £230,000 for Cornwall. This provides for the replacement of Charlestown County Primary School at a cost of £75,000 and other projects which are still under discussion. Local education authorities have been invited to submit proposals for the following year by the end of January.
§ Mr. Marksasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of primary and secondary schools built before 1902 in each local education authority area, as reported in the 1962 survey, and in the most recent survey.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeThe only information readily available about the School Building Survey, 1962, is that published in 1965. Information about individual local authorities could not be provided without disproportionate expenditure of time and money. No comparable survey has been undertaken since 1962. In November, 1969, however, local education authorities were asked to provide lists of primary and secondary schools in which the main building used for teaching purposes dated from before 1903; which were deficient in teaching area and in ancillary accommodation or amenities; and the replacement or improvement of which was justified32W because of long-term need for the accommodation. According to returns made by local authorities, some of them incomplete, the number of schools in England was as given in the table below. Local authorities have recently been asked to supplement and complete this information in relation to primary schools.
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NUMBER OF PRE-1903 SCHOOLS TO BE REPLACED/IMPROVED Local Education Authority Primary Secondary Total Bedfordshire 59 — 59 Berkshire 6 2 8 Buckinghamshire 11 — 11 Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 31 — 31 Cheshire 152 14 166 Cornwall 180 1 181 Cumberland 34 1 35 Derbyshire 122 35 157 Devon 205 2 207 Dorset 1 — 1 Durham 84 9 93 Essex 91 1 92 Gloucestershire 52 5 57 Hampshire 35 — 35 Hertfordshire 51 3 54 Hertfordshire 34 — 34 Huntingdon and Peterborough 20 1 21 Isle of Wight 3 — 3 Isles of Scilly — — — Kent 112 30 142 Lancashire 306 26 332 Leicestershire 27 2 29 Lincolnshire Holland 7 1 8 Kesteven 59 — 59 Lindsey 31 1 32 Norfolk 16 — 16 Northamptonshire 4 — 4 Northumberland 54 6 60 Nottinghamshire 83 11 94 Oxfordshire 3 — 3 Rutland — — — Shropshire (Salop) 2 1 3 Somerset 12 — 12 Staffordshire 45 — 45 Suffolk, East 49 1 50 Suffolk, West 56 — 56 Surrey 30 9 39 Sussex, East 59 — 59 Sussex, West 54 2 56 Warwickshire 29 2 31 Westmorland 3 3 6 Wiltshire 14 4 18 Worcestershire 2 1 3 Yorkshire East Riding 52 1 53 North Riding 70 6 76 West Riding 180 25 205 Barnsley — — — Barrow-in-Furness 2 — 2 Bath 10 2 12 Birkenhead 1 3 4 Birmingham 20 6 26 Blackburn 5 1 6 Blackpool — — — Bolton 8 3 11 34W
Local Education Authority Primary Secondary Total Bootle 3 — 3 Bournemouth 12 1 13 Bradford 12 — 12 Brighton 4 — 4 Bristol 4 — 4 Burnley 13 — 13 Burton-upon-Trent 1 — 1 Bury 2 — 2 Canterbury — — — Carlisle 6 — 6 Chester 6 — 6 Coventry 6 — 6 Darlington 6 — 6 Derby 18 — 18 Dewsbury — — — Doncaster 2 — 2 Dudley 1 — 1 Eastbourne 6 1 7 Exeter — — — Gateshead 1 — 1 Gloucester 2 — 2 Great Yarmouth 3 — 3 Grimsby 6 — 6 Halifax 5 — 5 Hartlepool 5 2 7 Hastings 5 1 6 Huddersfield 15 — 15 Ipswich 3 2 5 Kingston upon Hull — — — Leeds 37 4 41 Leicester 5 3 8 Lincoln — — — Liverpool 24 — 24 Luton 7 — 7 Manchester 22 1 23 Newcastle upon Tyne 3 — 3 Northampton 3 — 3 Norwich 4 — 4 Nottingham 20 — 20 Oldham 4 1 5 Oxford — — — Plymouth 7 4 11 Portsmouth 14 3 17 Preston 10 — 10 Reading 2 — 2 Rochdale 5 — 5 Rotherham — — — St. Helens 4 — 4 Salford 10 — 10 Sheffield 18 1 19 Solihull — — — Southampton 14 1 15 Southend-on-Sea 2 — 2 Southport — — — South Shields 3 — 3 Stockport 1 1 2 Stoke-on-Trent 12 — 12 Sunderland 16 3 19 Teesside 23 — 23 Torbay 14 — 14 Tynemouth 4 — 4 Wakefield — — — Wallasey 1 1 2 Walsall 3 1 4 Warley 1 3 4 Warrington 7 — 7 West Bromwich 7 1 8 Wigan 7 — 7 Wolverhampton 3 3 6 Worcester 1 — 1 York 5 1 6 Barking 1 — 1
Local Education Authority Primary Secondary Total Barnet 11 2 13 Bexley 14 1 15 Brent 6 5 11 Bromley 6 — 6 Croydon 9 — 9 Ealing 9 2 11 Enfield 9 — 9 Haringey 18 — 18 Harrow 1 — 1 Havering 2 — 2 Hillingdon 4 1 5 Hounslow 8 — 8 Kingston upon Thames 7 — 7 Merton 6 2 8 Newham 20 — 20 Redbridge 17 3 20 Richmond upon Thames 2 — 2 Sutton 4 — 4 Waltham Forest 8 3 11 London 124 20 144 Totals England 3,332 300 3,632