§ MR. DAVID MORGAN (Essex, Walthamstow)To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will appoint a Committee to inquire into the causes of the differences which exist between the rates which it is necessary to raise for educational purposes in different areas, and generally into the incidence of the cost of education.
(Answered by Mr. A.J. Balfour.) I think my hon. friend's object will be met by the appointment of an Inter-departmental Committee to inquire into the expenditure on public education in England and Wales from Exchequer grants, local rates, and other sources, with a view to ascertaining the various causes for the existing diversity in the amount of rate levied for education by local authorities, and the varying relation which this amount bears to the total local rates in each area.