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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for ORAL answer on....
Hong Kong
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary Office through your Under-Secretary by
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La/Co* Mr. John Rankin (Glasgow, Govan): To ask the
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he is aware that there are 2,000 vacant primary school places and 50,000 residents in Hong Kong's Wongtauhum Resettlement Estate; and if he will direct the Hong Kong Government to set up an inquiry into the reasons for these empty classrooms with a view to remedying the cause.
24 March, 1969.
Mr. Wilhamn Whitlock
Ipgee no need for an inquiry, 411 but 79 of the 2,500
primary school vacancies in this estate are in private schools.
Government and subsidised schools take two thirds of the present
enrolment and the aim is to provide a free or aided place for all
children who want it by 1971.
There are some 2,500 vacant primary school places in this
tihe
estate, all but 79 of these occurring in private schools. {The
reasons are not precisely known.
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A detailed survey of children
not attending school is in progress.
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