§ LORD R. CECILI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether the Swansea Local Education Authority have failed to keep accounts showing the receipts and expenditure in respect of each non-provided school there; and, if so, for what reason.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Board of Education do not require the production of accounts in any particular shape from local education authorities, that being a matter within the province of the Local Government Board. I do not know whether the Swansea local authority has or has not kept separate receipt and expenditure accounts for each voluntary school in its area. I am not aware of any reason why they should be compelled to do so; nor is it, so far as I know, by any means an invariable practice.