School-Leaving Age

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 May 1964.

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Photo of Dr Jeremy Bray Dr Jeremy Bray , Middlesbrough West 12:00, 14 May 1964

Does the Secretary of State not feel that this does indicate a difference between the sheer quantity of educational provision in different parts of the country? Does he feel, reflecting as it does the difference over many generations of occupational structure, housing provision, many other factors, that there is need for some more new measures to redress the inequalities in the educational provision as between different regions of the country?

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