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School, Wexham Court Farm Estate

Volume 530: debated on Thursday 22 July 1954

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asked the Minister of Education on what grounds permission has been refused to the Buckinghamshire education authority to build a junior school during 1955–56 for 480 children resident on the Wexham Court Farm estate.

The authority did not ask my right hon. Friend to include this school in their 1955–56 building programme or in the reserve list to that programme.

If the Minister is still responsible for this Department, would she be ready to meet the hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. R. Bell) and myself about this matter? Is the hon. Gentleman aware that on the Wexham Court Farm estate no school is being built for 480 children and that on another estate in Slough two schools are to be built where there will only be 100 children? Is it not possible to make some adjustment?

My right hon. Friend is quite aware of what is happening at Wexham Court Farm estate. As I say, this was not asked for on the programme or on the reserve list. My right hon. Friend has been told that this project will be the subject of a future application. When she receives such an application, she will, of course, consider it in the most careful way, and I have no doubt that if the hon. Gentleman and my hon. Friend the Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. R. Bell) desire to meet her to explain matters she will be only too pleased to listen to them.