§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will state the total at January 1966 of new school places in England and Wales provided since 1945 and the comparable figure at December 1976.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe number of new places taken into use in primary and secondary schools in England and Wales since 1945 was 3,962,000 at January 1966 and 7,811,000 at the end of December 1976. Of these, some 60 per cent. in each case were in new schools or first instalments of new schools. The 559W remainder were provided by extensions and adaptations to existing schools, in temporary accommodation or—in the immediate post-war years—by rehabilitation of war-damaged schools.