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House of Lords
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
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4 March
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**The Baroness Summerskill To ask Her Majesty's Goverment why compulsory primary education is not introduced in Hong Kong, having regard to the timated number of 80,000 children within the ages of 6 to 11, who are not attending school.
DRAFT REPLY
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It is the declared aim of the Hong Kong Government to provide
places for all children between the ages of 6 and 11 years who seek
primary education. It is also the aim of that Government to provide
free education for such children. Until these two aims have been
achieved it, is not practicable to consider making primary education
compulsory in Hong Kong. If the figure of 80,000 refers to the
number of children within the age group not attending school at any
given moment of time it is probably exaggerated by about 30%.
If it is intended to refer to the number of children not obtaining
any primary education it is also exaggerated, although it is
difficult to give a measure of the true figure since it is nine
years since the last census.
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