§ Commander Nobleasked the Minister of Education how many temporary hutments for use as classrooms have been 256W ordered since the middle of 1945; how many so ordered have been supplied; and how many are for the service of school meals.
§ Miss WilkinsonInformation is not available in the exact form requested by the hon. Member. So far as huts for the raising of the school age are concerned, the number in programmes submitted by local education authorities to cover the period to September, 1948, is 3,940 classrooms and 1,662 practical rooms. The number of these on which the Ministry of Works have received instructions to start work is 2,707 classrooms and 1,079 practical rooms. Apart from this programme: the number of certificates for prefabricated huts issued between July, 1945, and November, 1946, inclusive was 1,804, for the school meals service and 625 for other purposes, the last figure being equivalent to about 1,250 classrooms.