asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether the new primary school in Banks, Lancashire, was included in the most recent list of schemes submitted for his approval.

As I informed my hon. Friend on 3rd November last, it is for the local education authority to decide what projects it wishes to start in any particular year within the lump sum authorisation for school building allocated to the authority by my right hon. Friend. The primary school project at Bank is not included amongst those which Lancashire has indicated that it is hoped to start in 1976–77, nor is it amongst those so far notified as under consideration for 1977–78 when the allocation for that year is known.