§ 33. Mr. Baldryasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will seek to amend the Education Act 1944 so that local education authorities are no longer obliged to charge for voluntary music tuition.
§ Mr. DunnAs I said in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow) on 22 July—[Vol. 46, c. 246] — we have made it clear that the Government have no plans to amend the relevant provisions of the Education Act 1944, and that we hope that local education authorities and schools will make use of the ways open to them within the law of sustaining instrumental music tuition in our schools.