HC Deb 25 January 1971 vol 810 cc31-4W
Mr. Hicks

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when she expects to make an announcement concerning her replacement programme of primary schools built in the period before 1900 as relating to Cornwall.

Mrs. Thatcher

The first instalment of the primary school replacement programme, to start in 1972–73, includes an allocation of about £230,000 for Cornwall. This provides for the replacement of Charlestown County Primary School at a cost of £75,000 and other projects which are still under discussion. Local education authorities have been invited to submit proposals for the following year by the end of January.

Mr. Marks

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the number of primary and secondary schools built before 1902 in each local education authority area, as reported in the 1962 survey, and in the most recent survey.

Mr. van Straubenzee

The only information readily available about the School Building Survey, 1962, is that published in 1965. Information about individual local authorities could not be provided without disproportionate expenditure of time and money. No comparable survey has been undertaken since 1962. In November, 1969, however, local education authorities were asked to provide lists of primary and secondary schools in which the main building used for teaching purposes dated from before 1903; which were deficient in teaching area and in ancillary accommodation or amenities; and the replacement or improvement of which was justified because of long-term need for the accommodation. According to returns made by local authorities, some of them incomplete, the number of schools in England was as given in the table below. Local authorities have recently been asked to supplement and complete this information in relation to primary schools.

NUMBER OF PRE-1903 SCHOOLS TO BE REPLACED/IMPROVED
Local Education Authority Primary Secondary Total
Bedfordshire 59 59
Berkshire 6 2 8
Buckinghamshire 11 11
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 31 31
Cheshire 152 14 166
Cornwall 180 1 181
Cumberland 34 1 35
Derbyshire 122 35 157
Devon 205 2 207
Dorset 1 1
Durham 84 9 93
Essex 91 1 92
Gloucestershire 52 5 57
Hampshire 35 35
Hertfordshire 51 3 54
Hertfordshire 34 34
Huntingdon and Peterborough 20 1 21
Isle of Wight 3 3
Isles of Scilly
Kent 112 30 142
Lancashire 306 26 332
Leicestershire 27 2 29
Lincolnshire Holland 7 1 8
Kesteven 59 59
Lindsey 31 1 32
Norfolk 16 16
Northamptonshire 4 4
Northumberland 54 6 60
Nottinghamshire 83 11 94
Oxfordshire 3 3
Rutland
Shropshire (Salop) 2 1 3
Somerset 12 12
Staffordshire 45 45
Suffolk, East 49 1 50
Suffolk, West 56 56
Surrey 30 9 39
Sussex, East 59 59
Sussex, West 54 2 56
Warwickshire 29 2 31
Westmorland 3 3 6
Wiltshire 14 4 18
Worcestershire 2 1 3
Yorkshire East Riding 52 1 53
North Riding 70 6 76
West Riding 180 25 205
Barnsley
Barrow-in-Furness 2 2
Bath 10 2 12
Birkenhead 1 3 4
Birmingham 20 6 26
Blackburn 5 1 6
Blackpool
Bolton 8 3 11
Local Education Authority Primary Secondary Total
Bootle 3 3
Bournemouth 12 1 13
Bradford 12 12
Brighton 4 4
Bristol 4 4
Burnley 13 13
Burton-upon-Trent 1 1
Bury 2 2
Canterbury
Carlisle 6 6
Chester 6 6
Coventry 6 6
Darlington 6 6
Derby 18 18
Dewsbury
Doncaster 2 2
Dudley 1 1
Eastbourne 6 1 7
Exeter
Gateshead 1 1
Gloucester 2 2
Great Yarmouth 3 3
Grimsby 6 6
Halifax 5 5
Hartlepool 5 2 7
Hastings 5 1 6
Huddersfield 15 15
Ipswich 3 2 5
Kingston upon Hull
Leeds 37 4 41
Leicester 5 3 8
Lincoln
Liverpool 24 24
Luton 7 7
Manchester 22 1 23
Newcastle upon Tyne 3 3
Northampton 3 3
Norwich 4 4
Nottingham 20 20
Oldham 4 1 5
Oxford
Plymouth 7 4 11
Portsmouth 14 3 17
Preston 10 10
Reading 2 2
Rochdale 5 5
Rotherham
St. Helens 4 4
Salford 10 10
Sheffield 18 1 19
Solihull
Southampton 14 1 15
Southend-on-Sea 2 2
Southport
South Shields 3 3
Stockport 1 1 2
Stoke-on-Trent 12 12
Sunderland 16 3 19
Teesside 23 23
Torbay 14 14
Tynemouth 4 4
Wakefield
Wallasey 1 1 2
Walsall 3 1 4
Warley 1 3 4
Warrington 7 7
West Bromwich 7 1 8
Wigan 7 7
Wolverhampton 3 3 6
Worcester 1 1
York 5 1 6
Barking 1 1
Local Education Authority Primary Secondary Total
Barnet 11 2 13
Bexley 14 1 15
Brent 6 5 11
Bromley 6 6
Croydon 9 9
Ealing 9 2 11
Enfield 9 9
Haringey 18 18
Harrow 1 1
Havering 2 2
Hillingdon 4 1 5
Hounslow 8 8
Kingston upon Thames 7 7
Merton 6 2 8
Newham 20 20
Redbridge 17 3 20
Richmond upon Thames 2 2
Sutton 4 4
Waltham Forest 8 3 11
London 124 20 144
Totals England 3,332 300 3,632