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Expenditure (Priorities)

Volume 722: debated on Thursday 16 December 1965

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asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give, respectively, the estimated cost of raising the school leaving age, reducing over-sized classes, implementing the Newsom Report, and the expansion of universities and other places of higher education; and whether he will state his order of priorities.

I would refer the hon. Member to the Education Chapter of the National Plan, where the planned growth of expenditure on education is shown and the Government's intentions explained.