HC Deb 01 February 1968 vol 757 cc369-70W
33. Mr. John Wells

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the latest estimated cost of the introduction of universal comprehensive secondary schools.

Mr. Gordon Walker

The introduction of comprehensive education is bound to be a gradual process depending both on the extent to which local education authorities can devise sensible means of using existing buildings and on the rate at which new school building is justified for other reasons. No estimate of the kind requested by the hon. Member is, therefore, possible.