§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what financial help will be given by her Department to the Inner London Education Authority during the next 12 months to improve toilet facilities at primary and junior schools in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
§ Mrs. ThatcherMy Department does not give financial assistance to local education authorities and has no information about the resources that they devote specifically to improve toilet facilities. The ILEA's minor works allocation for 1973–74, part of which the authority may use for such improvements, is £690,000. In addition, there are funds available for minor works at voluntary-aided schools; and I have agreed to the continuation of the authority's alternative use of resources scheme under which managers and governors of schools are 171W free to carry out minor projects costing less than £1,000 each outside the minor works allocation but within their own allocation of revenue expenditure.
§ Mr. Thomas Coxasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the schools in the London borough of Wandsworth now under consideration for amalgamation as comprehensive schools; and if she will make a statement.
§ Mrs. ThatcherI understand that the Inner London Education Authority will shortly publish a consultative paper with suggestions about the future of schools in Wandsworth. The authority has not submitted proposals for the amalgamation of any schools in Wandsworth since this review began last year.