SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number of children at present maintained in the district and separate Poor Law schools of the Metropolis and of the provinces respectively.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOUROn the 1st January last, the latest date for which 963 information is at present available, there were 7,805 pauper children chargeable to Poor Law unions in London, and 4,329 children chargeable to Poor Law unions in the rest of England and Wales, who were maintained in district and separate schools.