§ SIR W. LAWSON (Cumberland, Cockermouth)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he can state, with regard to the Carlisle inspectoral district, the number of boys' departments which received grants at the rate of 20s. 6d. per scholar, and the number of girls' departments which received grants at the rate of 21s. 6d. per scholar, in the year ending 31st December, 1894; whether he can give similar information for the year ending 31st December, 1897; whether he can state in percentage form the relation of these two numbers to the total number of boys' and girls' schools in the Carlisle district; and whether he can also state what percentage of boys' and of girls' schools in the North Western inspectoral district received grants of 20s. 6d. and 21s. 6d. respectively in the year ending 31st December, 1897?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityThe numbers for 1894 could not be given without much delay, trouble, and expense. In 1897, in the Carlisle district, the boys in 38 boys' schools and 67 mixed schools were paid at the rate of 20s. 6d., and the girls, in 19 girls' schools and 44 mixed schools, at the rate of 21s. 6d. The percentage in the Carlisle district is, if part of the mixed school be treated for the purpose as an entire school: 26.44 per cent, for boys' schools, 16.19 per cent, for girls' schools. The percentage for the North Western district, treated in the same way is: 40.91 per cent, for boys' schools, 31.82 per cent, for girls' schools.