§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will estimate the number of schools which have had no internal or external decoration for(a) five years, (b) 10 years and (c) more than 10 years.
§ Mr. ForthThe information requested is not held centrally.
192WLocal education authorities and school governors are responsible for the state of maintained school buildings, and for deciding expenditure levels and priorities from the recurrent and capital resources available to them. Under local management of schools, governors have the flexibility to give a higher priority to repairs and maintenance work delegated to them if they wish.