HC Deb 30 March 1976 vol 908 cc436-7W
Mr. Kilroy-Silk

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many mentally handicapped persons leave special schools each year (a) nationally and (b) on Merseyside.

Miss Margaret Jackson

This information is not collected by my Department. In January 1975 there were approximately 30,000 children aged 2–19 attending schools for the educationally subnormal (severe) in England and Wales, including 1,100 on Merseyside.

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