asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what assistance it is proposed to give the East African High Commission Desert Locust Control Organisation for the supply of new transport.

The Organisation's transport is in urgent need of renewal to enable it to operate effectively and it is proposed to make a special grant of £50,000 for this purpose. Payment will be made shortly from the Civil Contingencies Fund and a supplementary estimate will be presented in due course to repay the Fund.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what contribution Her Majesty's Government intend to make on behalf of Colonial Territories to the United Nations Special Fund regional project for desert locust control.

The United Kingdom, on behalf of Aden and our dependent territories in Africa affected by the project, recently signed an agreement with the United Nations Special Fund and the Food and Agriculture Organisation for a six-year project for the control of the desert locust. The 1960–61 contribution of £10,270 in respect of these territories will be met by the United Kingdom. Payment will be made shortly from the Civil Contingencies Fund and a supplementary estimate will be presented in due course to repay the Fund.

asked the Minister of Education if he will list the primary schools, and the secondary modern schools, which were submitted by the Durham County Education Committee for inclusion in their building programmes; and which of these schools were deleted by his Department in the programmes for 1952–53, 1953–54, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, and 1959–60.

As the list is long, I am sending this information to the hon. Member.

asked the Minister of Education what proposals for improving grammar school accommodation were submitted to his Department between 1957 and 1960 by the Durham County Local Education Authority and were not accepted for inclusion in building programmes before 1962.

Projects for the following schools were submitted by the Authority between 1957 and 1960 and have not yet been included in a building programme:—

• Stanley Grammar
• Hookergate Grammar
• Chester-le-Street Grammar
• Blaydon Grammar
• Barnard Castle Grammar/Technical
• Lanchester Roman Catholic Grammar/Technical

asked the Minister of Transport how many miles of the Great North Road in Lincolnshire is at present doubled tracked and how soon it is planned that the rest will be double tracked.

Dual carriageways are open to traffic on 4½ miles of the Great North Road in Lincolnshire. Work is now in hand on the provision of a further 12½ miles of dual carriageways, 2¼ miles of which should be completed by the end of this year and the remainder early in 1962. The remaining 5¼ miles within the county consists mainly of 3-lane single carriageway, and the dualling of these sections will be undertaken later as funds permit.

asked the Secretary of State for War if he is now in a position to make a statement on the future of his Department's depot at Moreton-on-Lugg; and, approximately, how many personnel will be employed there.

The depot will be used for motor transport stores until the end of next year and will then become a command ordnance depot. About five or six hundred civilians will be employed there.