§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list those parts of the city and county of Kingston upon Hull which have been designated as educational priority areas; what projects her Department has authorised for primary and nursery school projects in those areas; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeEducational priority areas have not been designated by the Department. Local education authorities have been invited to identify the districts within their own areas which suffer from the kind of social and physical deficiencies which the Plowden Council described in Chapter 5 of its Report. On the basis of proposals submitted by the Kingston upon Hull local education authority, the city has benefited as follows:
- 1. A total of £46,000 for minor works to improve old primary schools was included in the 1968–70 school building programme for education priority areas.
- 2. A project to add three nursery classes, providing 60 places, at an existing primary school was approved under the second phase of the urban programme.
- 3. Six schools attract special addition of £75 per annum to the salaries of teachers in schools of exceptional difficulty.