HC Deb 26 May 1989 vol 153 c763W
Mr. Alan W. Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, for primary schools in Dyfed, what are the latest figures for(a) the number of children on school rolls, (b) the number of temporary and permanent school places, (c) the number of surplus places, (d) the target number of primary school places in 1992 and (e) the number of primary schools which would need to be closed to achieve the 1992 targets for surplus places.

Mr. Peter Walker

Dyfed education authority figures as at January 1989 are:

  1. (a) 31,332;
  2. (b) 4,742 temporary and 36,268 permanent places;
  3. (c) 9,678.

These figures will be the subject of further discussions with the authority. But the 1992 targets implied by Welsh Office circular 20/88 would involve a reduction in the number of surplus places to about 5,500. It is for the authority to decide how to effect reductions.