§ Mr. Shortasked the President of the Board of Education whether it is owing to increasing costs of materials that the erection of the proposed new secondary school at Adwick-le-Street is being delayed; whether new tenders are being asked for; and whether construction will shortly commence?
§ Mr. ShakespeareI am informed by the West Riding local education authority that the erection of the school is being delayed because the contractors, whose tenders for the work had been accepted, subsequently withdrew them. Fresh tenders have now been received and are being considered by the authority, and I am therefore unable to say when construction will commence.