asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, in view of the recent deterioration in the condition of Brixton Church of England-aided school, Devon, he will now approve the application by Devon county council for permission to provide 15 per cent. of the cost of rebuilding the school under its capital programme for 1987–88.

The Devon local education authority has alerted the Department to the view of the local diocesan authorities that the replacement of this school should be regarded as a high priority in the 1986–87 school building programme. As in previous years capital expenditure allocations for 1986–87, naming those voluntary aided school projects on which a start can be made in that year, will not be announced until about December 1985.