MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the Annual Report of the Committee of Council on Education for England and Wales, the expenditure as well as the income is tabulated in the case of Board schools, whereas the income alone is given in the case of schools aided by Parliamentary Grants; and whether, in view of the general application of the Free Education Act, he will take steps to ensure the publication in future Annual Reports of the expenditure of all State-aided schools, to whichever class they belong?
§ MR. ACLANDThe tables given in the Annual Report of the Committee of Council on Education do not show the income and expenditure of Board schools, but the income and expenditure of School Boards, including all charges on the School Fund of the Board, such as interest on building loans, &c. To give the income and expenditure of each school in England and Wales would increase the size of the Annual Report to an unmanageable degree, and would be of comparatively little use unless further details were also given. But a fuller Return, in the form of that ordered by the House in 1890, on the Motion of my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade (Parliamentary Paper 403) is now in course of preparation, and will be issued when the full details for all public elementary schools as to the first complete school year after the coming into operation of the Free Education Act of 1891 have been collected and tabulated.