MR. LYULPH STANLEYasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether, since, in the opinion of the Education Department, eighty cubical feet and eight square feet of area are admittedly insufficient school accommodation for each child in average attendance, their Lordships will make provision in the new Code that the measurement of denominational schools, as well as of board schools, shall be such as will secure to the school children in both cases alike a sufficient amount of space for their health, and for their efficient instruction?
§ MR. MUNDELLAIt is the constant aim of the Education Department to secure more than the minimum space laid down in the Code, which is correctly stated in the Question of my hon. Friend. If my hon. Friend will compare the average attendance throughout England and Wales with the accommodation calculated at eight square feet, he will find that the accommodation is generally in excess even of 10 square feet. We are not prepared at once to insist upon the enlargement of the minimum. We hope, however, gradually 153 to bring about a general increased average both of attendance and of accommodation.