HC Deb 26 February 1996 vol 272 c368W
Mr. Chris Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list those local education authorities which responded(a) favourably and (b) unfavourably to proposals in her Department's consultation document issued in August 1995 to abolish the School Premises Regulations 1981. [16834]

Mrs. Gillan

The consultation document issued in July 1995 proposed replacing the Education (School Premises) Regulations with new, revised regulations.

Of the 49 local education authorities that responded during the consultation exercise, the following responded favourably to the proposal that the current school premises regulations should be revised: Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Doncaster, East Sussex, Enfield, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow, Knowsley, Solihull, Somerset, Stockport, Suffolk, Trafford, Wandsworth and Warwickshire.

The following authorities responded unfavourably to the proposal that the current regulations should be revised: Kent, Harrow and Sutton.