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Following Parliamentary Question by Mr. Colin
Jackson put down for written answer on 15 December.
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs when compulsory primary school
education is to be introduced into Hong Kong.
2.
Reply on following lines proposed.
It is the aim of the Hong Kong Government to provide
by 1970/71 free or subsidised education to all
By
children of primary school age who seek it.
that date a total of 695,000 places will have been
provided in Government and subsidised primary schools,
which will exceed the estimated total of 650,000
children of primary school age.
3.
No decision on the introduction of compulsory
/primary