§ Mr. Maurice Macmillanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the statutory powers he has to require education authorities to provide transport from home to school and back again in cases for which provision is not required under the 1944 Education Act on grounds of distance; and on what occasions such powers have been invoked.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonUnder Section 55(1) of the Education Act 1944 the Secretary of State may issue a direction to a local education authority in regard 265W to arrangements for the provision of such transport; he has also, under Section 68 of that Act, a general power of direction to prevent the unreasonable exercise of an authoritiy's functions. These powers have been invoked very rarely and there is no readily traceable record of a case in recent years.