HC Deb 18 July 1968 vol 768 cc260-1W
Mr. Rossi

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, how much of the allowance granted for educational priority areas will be used for nursery education.

Mr. Edward Short

As my predecessor informed the House on 30th November, 1967, it was not intended that the £16 million for school building in educational priority areas should cater for any new departure in nursery education. Nevertheless, among the proposals approved were 23 which included the replacement of existing nursery classrooms or the provision of new ones under current policy. The value of these nursery elements cannot be separately identified.—[Vol. 755, c. 619–20.]