§ Mr. Staintonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) when new State primary school facilities will be available in Hadleigh, West Suffolk, in place of Threadneedle Street School to be taken over by the local education authority on its vacation for new premises by the Church of England;
(2) what are the plans to rehouse the secondary school at Station Road, Hadleigh, West Suffolk, in new premises.
§ Mr. CroslandThe provision of new premises for these schools is linked with the local education authority's plan for secondary reorganisation, which I am currently considering. Under the plan the Hadleigh area would have a new middle school for the age range 9 to 13 with the older pupils attending an upper school elsewhere, probably in Sudbury. I am also considering the inclusion of two related projects, for Hadleigh and Sudbury, in the Authority's school building programme for 1969–70. These new schools would make the existing Hadleigh secondary school buildings available to rehouse the county primary school which, in the meanwhile, the authority propose to establish in the Threadneedle Street premises.
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§ Mr. Staintonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what sum is to be provided from public funds for the proposed new Church of England primary school at Hadleigh, West Suffolk, and what sum from the Church.
§ Mr. CroslandThe figures are likely to be about £74,000 and £16,000 respectively.