Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 March 1984.
Local education authorities still have significant stocks of old primary schools and it would appear that the criterion that the Secretary of State has enunciated has been left out of allocations throughout the country. When will the Secretary of State address himself more seriously to this problem? How long must we expect children, especially in urban areas, to be educated in substandard buildings?