§ Mr. Meacherasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to what percentage of gross national product he considers that public expenditure may rise by 1990; on what
216Wcontinued to press for the improvement of maintained education in Toxteth and in Liverpool generally. In July he approved the authority's proposals to close three small inner city county secondary schools and in August he approved proposals to reorganise the city's 41 Roman Catholic secondary schools in order to avoid the otherwise damaging consequences of falling pupil numbers. The authority has recently informed him that there is no prospect of further progress on the reorganisation of the city's county secondary schools by September 1983, and he is considering whether there are further steps he might take to assist the authority to secure a sound educational future for its schools.