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MEMBERS of the House Lords do not like the Gove ment's plans to allow char; to be made for school tra port but Minister of State Education and Science, Ba ness Young defended I move.
She pointed out that ab £130m was spent annuall England and Wales and ab £14m in Scotland on the r vision of home to sch transport.
Under the present law, lc education authorities w committed to ever-increas costs of transport caused the rising world prices of oi Baroness David asked w would happen when a el arrived at a bus stop withoi bus pass or the money for fare. Was the driver to ref to pick him up? What h pened when a parent kep child away from school cause he could not find money for the fare at that r ment?
Lord Butler said that 1 transport had been a vital 1 ture of the 1944 settlement. would like to have the sub: looked into by the Gove ment, as the original savi estimate was £30m but researches showed that saving would be £20mill only. The Government shc find some other way to n this money before the reached the Committee sta