§ Captain Chetwyndasked the Minister of Education what steps are being taken to derequisition the new secondary school at Stockton-on-Tees and to complete the building; and when it is contemplated that the school will be used for its original purpose.
§ Miss WilkinsonThe building will be derequisitioned as soon as certain safety precautions now being carried out have been completed. Proposals to finish off the building, which was left incomplete in 1940, were submitted to me last January, and on 14th February last I told the authority that I should be prepared to give sympathetic consideration to their proposal on submission of plans and fur-174W ther particulars, which I am still awaiting. It is hoped to have the building ready for school use early in 1948, but this will depend, first, on the speed with which the authority submit the plans and, later, on labour and materials.