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Mrs. Bain
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what has been the level of Government expenditure on the provision of nursery level education in England and Wales in each of the past 10 years.
Mr. Armstrong
Public expenditure by local education authorities on nursery schools in England and Wales was as follows:
| £m. at out-turn prices | ||
| Recurrent | Capital | |
| 1964–65 | 2·9 | 0·2 |
| 1965–66 | 3·3 | 0·2 |
| 1966–67 | 3·5 | 0·2 |
| 1967–68 | 3·7 | 0·2 |
| 1968–69 | 4·0 | 0·1 |
| 1969–70 | 4·5 | 0·3 |
| 1970–71 | 5·3 | 0·9 |
| 1971–72 | 6·3 | 0·7 |
| 1972–73 | 7·4 | 1·5 |
| 1973–74 | 9·1 | 2·1 |
| (provisional data) | ||