§ Sir R. Aclandasked the Minister of Education whether she will publish a table showing the distribution by counties of primary schools condemned as structurally inadequate before 1930 and still in use.
§ Miss Horsbrugh,pursuant to her reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 28th January, 1954; c. 1954] circulated the following answer
The table below shows the distribution, by administrative areas, of schools in England and Wales which, in 1925, were 117W condemned as unsuitable for continued recognition, but which have not subsequently been removed from the list and are still in use:
ENGLAND Counties No. of Schools Buckinghamshire 1 Cambridgeshire 1 Devon 2 Dorset 1 Durham 6 Gloucestershire 1 Hertfordshire 1 Huntingdonshire 2 Kent 2 Lancashire 5 London 1 Northamptonshire 1 Nottinghamshire 3 Shropshire 3 Somerset 1 Staffordshire 3 Suflolk East 1 Suffolk West 3 Yorkshire, West Riding 2 County Boroughs Birmingham 2 Burnley 1 Coventry 1 Huddersfield 1 Liverpool 1 Manchester 7 Portsmouth 1 St. Helens 1 West Ham 1 WALES Counties No. of Schools Carmarthenshire 6 Denbighshire 2 Monmouthshire 3 Pembrokeshire 1 County Boroughs Cardiff 1 TOTAL NUMBER OF SCHOOLS England 56 Wales 13 69