§ Mr. Terry Walkerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, further to her reply to the hon. Member for Kingswood about nursery education allocations offered to Avon county council, if she will list in the Official Report the sums allocated but not taken up in the financial years 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77 and 1977–78.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe sums allocated to but not taken up by the Avon county council under my Department's nursery education building programme are as follows:
(£000s) Allocation 1974–75 … … 286.6 1975–76 … … 267.4 1976–77 … … 223.0 1977–78 … … * * Nil bid, and therefore no allocation.