§ Mr. Martenasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the local education authorities which have not taken up their allocations for nursery education in the last year and the amounts involved.
§ Miss Joan LestorThe local education authorities which have informed my Department that they are not taking up all or part of their nursery education building allocations in 1975–76, and the amounts involved, are:
Authority Allocation Amount relinquished £ £ Avon 267,443 267,443 Bolton 107,500 74,800 Bromley 95,000 95,000 Buckinghamshire 165,000 115,000 Cambridgeshire 195,000 100,000 Coventry 120,000 50,000 Croydon 147,500 147,500 Cumbria 165,300 165,300 Derbyshire 412,500 122,500 Ealing 107,500 107,500 East Sussex 195,000 155,000 Hampshire 552,500 552,500 Havering 70,000 30,000 Isles of Scilly 2,500 2,500 Kent 665,000 485,000 Lancashire 364,910 7,910 Leicestershire 322,500 225,500 Northumberland 115,640 115,640 Oxfordshire 154,775 129,775 Redbridge 95,000 95,000 Salop 145,000 145,000 Somerset 135,890 135,890 Suffolk 255,000 218,600 Trafford 69,375 69,375 West Sussex 102,500 87,500 Wiltshire 122,000 122,000