§ Mr. Marksasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what changes have been made in building regulations with regard to the size of classrooms in non-open type primary schools; and what are the present dimensions.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeReferences in Regulation 5 of the Standards for School Premises Regulations, 1959, to the numbers and sizes of teaching spaces appropriate to primary schools were repealed in 1969. The Regulation, as amended, refers only to the minimum total area of teaching accommodation to be provided, and no distinction is made between open plan and other designs. Regulation 5, as amended, is as follows
Every primary school shall include teaching accommodation comprising an area not less than specified in this regulation as appropriate to the number of pupils for whom the school is designed:not more than 75 pupils, 40 square feet for each of the first 25 pupils and 23 square feet per pupil thereafter;more than 75 pupils but less than 120 pupils, 50 square feet for each of the first 30 pupils and 21 square feet per pupil thereafter;120 or more pupils, 50 square feet for each of the first 40 pupils and 17 square feet per pupil thereafter.I am sending the hon. Member copies of the principal Regulations and amending Regulations.