asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish in the Official Report the increase in real terms in educational expenditure on young persons in the years from 1972 to 1976.

This information is to be found in Table 2.10, of Volume II of the White Paper, "The Government's Expenditure Plans" (Cmnd. 6721-II). At 1976 survey prices, expenditure on education, excluding libraries, in Great Britain was: