HC Deb 08 November 1976 vol 919 cc21-2W
Mr. Spearing

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if her

Miss Margaret Jackson

Statistics relating to school attendance and the take-up of school meals in maintained schools in Northumberland are as follows:

reply to the recommendations of the Expenditure Committee concerning policy making in her Department will explain why, since 1968, her Department has disregarded the mandatory provisions of Sections 4 and 5 of the Education Act 1944.

Mr. Oakes

The Government will make a comprehensive reply to the recommendations of the Expenditure Committee.