HC Deb 25 March 1965 vol 709 cc132-4W
Mr. Gower

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money he will make available to county councils in Wales for the construction of schools during the year 1965–66; and by how much this aggregate sum differs from the sums requested by Welsh county councils.

Mr. Crosland

The major building programme allocation for primary and secondary schools for the County Councils in Wales for 1965–66 amounts to £4,020,304. This is £3,204,820 less than the amount requested by the Councils. In addition the value of the allocations to the Councils for 1965–66 for minor building projects costing less than £20,000 and which will be largely expended on primary and secondary schools is £925,000. This is £693,503 less than the aggregate sum requested by the County Councils.

Mr. Gower

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money he will make available to county borough councils in Wales for the construction of new schools during the year 1965–66; and by how much this aggregate sum differs from the sums requested by those councils.

Mr. Crosland

The major building programme allocations for primary and secondary schools for the County Borough Councils in Wales for 1965–66 amount to £1,214, 465. This is £946,185 less than the amount requested by the Councils. In addition the value of the allocations to the Councils for 1965–66 for minor building projects costing less than £20,000 and which will be largely expended on primary and secondary schools is £225,000. This is £94,050 less than the amount requested by the County Borough Councils.

Mr. Gower

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many proposals to improve schools at a cost of less than £2,000 per school are now before him, which relate to schools in the county of Glamorgan, the borough of Barry, and the area of Cardiff Rural District Council, respectively; and which schools are involved.

Mr. Crosland

Proposals costing less than £2,000 do not normally require to be submitted to me.

Mr. Gower

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which schools in the county of Glamorgan which it was intended to modernise, improve or extend during the year 1965–66 will not now be modernised, improved or extended until a later date; which of these are situated within the borough of Barry; and which are situated in the area of Cardiff Rural District Council.

Mr. Crosland

All of the proposals to modernise, improve or extend schools in the County of Glamorgan submitted specifically by the authority for inclusion in the 1965–66 major building programme have been included in that programme. None of these are in the areas of the Barry Borough Council or the Cardiff Rural District Council.

In addition to these projects the Glamorgan County Council submitted 19 such proposals for inclusion in major building programmes for the three-year period 1965–1967–68, without specifying the year in which they wished the projects to be included. Of these 19 projects only one, Barry Girls Grammar School, is in the area of Barry Borough Council or Cardiff Rural District Council. Three of these projects have been included in the 1965–66 programme, one in the 1966–67 programme and four in the first half of the 1967–68 programme.

The Barry Girls Grammar School project has not yet been programmed but will be considered along with other projects not yet programmed when the second half of the 1967–68 programme is considered.

Information is not available to my Department about minor projects for modernising, improving or extending schools costing individually less than £20,000 which the Glamorgan County Council proposed to carry out in 1965–66 but which will now be carried out at a later date.