§ Mr. Bakerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what is the decline in the numbers of those attending primary schools in the ILEA area forecast for each of the next five years;
(2) what are the numbers of pupils receiving secondary education in the ILEA area forecast to be in each of the next five years.
§ Miss Joan LestorI understand from ILEA that its projections of numbers of pupils in primary and secondary schools respectively for the next five years are as follows:
Primary schools January 1976 … … 199,000 January 1977 … … 189,700 January 1978 … … 179,500 January 1979 … … 168,600 January 1980 … … 158,700 Secondary schools January 1976 … … 179,600 January 1977 … … 180,800 January 1978 … … 178,100 January 1979 … … 174,800 January 1980 … … 169,700