Major Whiteleyasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that the facilities for secondary and technical education in Wolverton are, owing to restricted accommodation, no longer sufficient for the needs 2661W of the district; and whether he will take steps to provide the necessary facilities?
Mr. LindsayThe Board are aware that the existing facilities for technical education at Wolverton are seriously inadequate, and in recent years they have repeatedly urged the authority to secure a suitable site for the erection of a new Technical College but so far without success. As regards secondary education, the Board are aware that the existing secondary school at Wolverton lacks certain desirable facilities but, in the absence of any claim that the conditions are such as to call for special consideration under Circular 1464, the Board have not felt able to press the authority to incur expenditure on improvements at this school.