Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what recent changes he has made in his plans to extend educational facilities to children under the age of 5 years.
§ Dr. BoysonNone. The Government's expenditure plans 1980–81 to 1983–84 (Cmnd. 7841) provide for expenditure on under-fives to fall to about 5 per cent. below the current level. The Government hope that local education authorities will be able to achieve these savings without curtailing their provision of nursery education, mainly by restricting the admission of younger, 4-year-olds to reception classes in primary schools.