§ Mr. Spenceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will alter the regulaions in order to allow the purpose-built school buildings serving Clay-penny hospital for mentally handicapped at Easingwold, Yorkshire, to be kept open at weekends and for longer than the conventional school year; and if he will make a statement.
§ Dr. BoysonThe Handicapped Pupils and Special Schools Regulations 1959—as amended—do not preclude the school being kept open at weekends and for longer than the conventional school year. The premises are leased to the North Yorkshire local education authority by the area health authority and their use for school or other purposes is a matter for agreement between the two authorities.