§ Mr. Merlyn Reesasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list those parts of the City of Leeds which have been designated an educational priority area.
§ Mr. van StraubenzeeThe Department has not designated educational priority areas. 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 Leeds local education authority, several districts of the city have benefited as follows:
- 1. Five projects to replace old primary schools were included in the 1968–70 school building programme for educational priority areas.
- 2. Nine projects have been approved under the urban programme—eight for additional nursery provision, and one to provide a reception centre for immigrant children.
- 3. Thirteen schools attract the special addition of £75 per annum to the salaries of teachers in schools of exceptional difficulty.