§ Mr. David Watkinsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when she expects to be able to reply to the letter of 5 December 1978 from the hon. Member for Consett on the subject of Blackfyne and Moorside schools, Consett.
288Wtatives of the authority on 21 December and expressed concern that it had not complied with the requirements to submit further proposals. I also ask for an early reply to the Department's letter asking the Essex authority to consider again the submission of a sixth form college proposal for Colchester.
The authority has undertaken that the schools sub-committee will at its meeting on 19 February formulate proposals for subsequent ratification by the education committee and the county council.