§ Mr. Luceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what she estimates to be the cost to public funds, both local and national, of educating in local authority schools those children presently attending independent private schools.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeThe result of applying to the number of pupils in independent schools the estimated per capita costs for 1971–72 of pupils in maintained schools is a total of about £70 million per year.