§ Mr. Linsteadasked the Minister of Education the number of places available and filled in nursery and primary schools in each metropolitan borough.
§ Mr. TomlinsonI have no statistics of the number of places available in nursery schools and primary schools in each Metropolitan borough, but following are266W the latest particulars of the number of children on the registers of maintained and assisted nursery schools and primary schools in those boroughs:
Metropolitan Borough Number of children on registers, January, 1950 Nursery Schools Other Primary Schools City — 498 Battersea — 9,229 Bermondsey 80 5,843 Bethnal Green — 5,124 Camberwell 30 14,938 Chelsea — 2,869 Deptford 217 5,610 Finsbury — 3,425 Fulham 168 9,039 Greenwich 115 7,073 Hackney — 13,218 Hammersmith — 9,312 Hampstead — 3,856 Holborn — 1,273 Islington 84 19,432 Kensington 81 7,823 Lambeth — 14,639 Lewisham 90 18,303 Paddington — 7,042 Poplar 37 6,981 St. Marylebone — 3,710 St. Pancras 160 8,519 Shoreditch — 3,757 Southwark — 7,414 Stepney — 8,861 Stoke Newington — 2,787 Wandsworth 46 24,060 Westminster — 3,895 Woolwich 163 12,877 TOTAL LONDON 1,271 241,407
§ Mr. Linsteadasked the Minister of Education if he will give the maximum permitted cost per place for new nursery, primary and secondary schools in London.
§ Mr. TomlinsonThe present limits of net cost for primary and secondary schools are £140 and £240 respectively. These limits apply throughout England and Wales, though where there are unusual site problems or other exceptional difficulties I am prepared to consider making some additional allowance for particular projects. No yardstick of cost can yet be laid down for nursery schools, very few of which can be built in present circumstances; each one is considered individually.