§ MR. SHARPEI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education with reference to the statements in the Report for 1895 of the Chief Inspector of Schools for the Metropolitan Division, that (page 9) out of 485,060 children in London Board Schools only seven per cent., or 33,172, were above the fifth standard, and that (page 7) out of the total number of children at ten years of age in the London Board Schools only 25 per cent. continue there until 12 years of age, what would be the corresponding figures for England and Wales in 1896 under both those heads?
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Committee of Council have no information as to standards. As regards the question of the age at which children leave school, I am unable to find in the report of the Chief Inspector the statement attributed to him. The latest official records show that, in the whole of England and Wales, about 82 per cent. of the children of ten years of age stay till twelve, and in the London Board Schools about 92 per cent.