Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 March 1984.
The allocations of prescribed expenditure made to local education authorities continue to take account of the number of pupils who are accommodated in unremodelled primary schools built before 1903. This is one of the measures of relative need which are employed for the purpose of making allocations—it is for each authority to decide how its allocation will be used.