HC Deb 18 January 1977 vol 924 c86W
Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish in the Official Report a list showing the number of pre-1903 schools still in use in English Metropolitan and shire counties.

Miss Margaret Jackson

According to a 10 per cent. sample survey held in 1975, the numbers of schools containing at least some pre-1903 teaching accommodation are estimated to have been as as follows:

now under tuition compared with some 50,000 a year ago and fewer than 10,000 before that.