§ Mr. Duffyasked the Minister of Education how many children attending the Holme Valley Grammar School will be affected by the withdrawal of passenger service on the Huddersfield—Penistone—Clayton West railway lines; and what will be the additional cost of providing alternative transport.
§ Sir E. BoyleI understand that no proposal to withdraw the passenger service on these lines has yet been published by the Railways Board, and my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport has yet to consider the matter. The local education authority says, however, that about 130 pupils would be affected; and that, if it had to provide special school buses the cost would be about £570 a year.