HC Deb 17 July 1984 vol 64 c101W
12. Mr. Skinner

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many extra places he expects to be provided in nursery schools and nursery classes over each of the next three years.

Mr. Brooke

The Government's expenditure plans for the next three years allow for the maintenance of a 40 per cent. level of participation of three and four-year-olds in school, the highest level ever. Both the extent and the form of that provision—whether in nursery schools, nursery classes, or infant classes—are matters for local authority discretion.