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Dr. Hampson
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of recurrent expenditure on schools is spent on books and teaching aids.
Mrs. Shirley Williams
In each of the financial years 1975–76 and 1976–77 about 4 per cent. of local authorities' recurrent expenditure on schools was devoted to books and teaching aids.