Mrs. Hillasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he is aware that Manchester Education Committee, with the approval of his Department, is now having to spend £4,906 for an extension to a new kitchen and installation of heavy cooking equipment; and if he will review his Department's advice on sizes of kitchens in hostels at teachers' training colleges, as new ones brought into use recently have proved 167W inadequate to house the heavy cooking equipment necessary to cater for large numbers of students.
§ Mr. HoggThe kitchen at the Grey-stoke hostel of the Elizabeth Gaskell Training College was approved in 1960 by my Department on the basis of an allowance of 6 square feet per diner. It has now been extended at a cost of £4,906, including heavy equipment, to give more room. While the efficiency of a kitchen is influenced by layout as well as by floor area, the Department now allows 7 square feet per diner in new kitchens of this size.