§ MR. CHARLES MORLEY (Brecknock)To ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will state the number of boys and the number of girls educated in public elementary schools, and will he state why these figures, which appeared in Table 8 of the Statistics of Public Elementary Schools published in previous years, have been omitted from the new volume of statistics [Cd. 1139] recently published.
(Answered by Sir John Gorst.) The number of boys in actual average attendance amounted, according to the last 1010 Returns, to 2,430,570, and that of girls to 2,305,013. The Table to which the hon. Member refers gave the number of boys and girls in the different standards. It could not be continued in the volume recently published, as the classification by standards had ceased during the year to which these statistics relate.