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Part of Orders of the Day — Expiring Laws Continuance Bill – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 16 November 1960.

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Photo of Miss Peggy Herbison Miss Peggy Herbison , Lanarkshire North 12:00, 16 November 1960

In the debate last year the Joint Under-Secretary of State stressed that this was a matter purely for the local education authorities and the hon. Gentleman this very moment has just stressed the same matter. Is he not aware that the Secretary of State for Scotland is the Minister of Education for Scotland? If it is found that staggered holidays are bad, from an educational point of view, will not the Secretary of State take some responsibility for examining this matter in Angus, Perth, and Kincardineshire, where that is done? I am not asking him now to say that there must be no staggered holidays, but he ought to be quite sure that damage is not done to the children of the poorer families in those areas.