§ Mr. Bishopasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the total sum spent by his Department on education in the latest convenient year; for every pound spent on formal education, how much was spent on the youth services by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the position of the youth service in relation to the recommendations of the Albemarle Report.
§ Mr. CroslandThe total of Votes 2, 3 and 7 of the 1965–66 Estimates, Class VII, excluding expenditure on School Meals and Milk, is £239,354,000; the amount provided in Vote 2 for the Youth Service is £1,887,000. A comparison of this figure with the equivalent amount of £229,000 in 1959–60 illustrates the development of the Youth Service since the Albemarle Report though most of the public expenditure on education and the Youth Service is borne by Local224W Authorities and is not on my Department's Votes. Considerable progress has been made in implementing the recommendations contained in the Report; in particular, the number of full-time youth leaders has increased from 700 to about 1,200, and 1,822 capital projects have been programmed in England and Wales since 1960. A committee of the Youth Service Development Council is now reviewing the objectives of the Albemarle Report and will in due course make recommendations to the Council for the future development of the Service.