SCHOOL BUS SURVEY? c ALLS for a reduction in the three-mile
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minimum for transporting children to •school did not meet with a very enthusiastic Government response in the Commons last week. Mr. R. E. Prentice, Minister of State for Education, pointed out to Mr. Clive Bossom (Tory. Leominster), who raised the matter, that the present arrangements gave local education authorities power to make special provision if they considered that local conditions justified it. He promised to bear in mind Mr. Bossom's suggestion that a county-bycounty survey should be carried out to see whether the arrangements could be made much more flexible. But. added Mr. Prentice, a blanket decision about a statutory minimum covering the whole country would not necessarily solve all the local problems which had to be looked at separately by the local education authorities.