§ 30. Mr. Watkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement about the dates at which children may leave school.
§ Mr. MulleyThe dates on which children may leave school are at present fixed by the Education Act of 1962. Those children born between 1st September and 31st January may leave at the end of the Easter term following their sixteenth birthdays; those born between 1st February and 31st August may do so at the end of the summer term. A Bill to bring forward the summer leaving date from the end of the summer term to the last Friday in May was introduced in another place on 11th December.