Primary Schools

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 March 1984.

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Photo of Mr Reginald Freeson Mr Reginald Freeson , Brent East 12:00, 6 March 1984

Will the Secretary of State bear in mind an extremely important aspect of the issue concerning capital expenditure in schools which for some time has not received the attention that it should have done? I refer to the many schools where, for whatever reason, there has been a failure over many years to establish proper planned maintenance programmes, with the result that there is a need for considerable capital expenditure to make good the deficiencies that are now appearing. That is occurring in many education authorities' areas. Will action be taken to provide the necessary capital resources?