Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 March 1969.
The provision of textbooks is the responsibility of local education authorities, and, although practice varies greatly between them, the average expenditure per pupil on library and textbooks has increased from £1·30 per pupils in 1964–65 to £1·57 in 1967–68.