§ MR. BRIDGEMAN (Shropshire, Oswestry)To ask the President of the Board of Education if he can state the number of elementary schools in England and Wales in which there is only one teacher of any kind, and the number in which there is only one teacher and a pupil teacher.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The following tables show the number of departments as well as the number of schools: —
§ I. Table showing the number of elementary schools in England and Wales with certain specified staff, on the last day of the school year ended in the year 1904–5.
687§ II. Table showing the number of departments in elementary schools in England and Wales with certain specified
| England. | Wales and Monmouthshire. | England and Wales. | |
| Number of departments with only one teacher of any kind | 1,861 | 230 | 2,091 |
| Number of departments with one teacher and a pupil teacher | 244 | 37 | 281 |
| Number of departments with one additional teacher but no pupil teacher | 4,365 | 386 | 4,751 |
| Number of departments with one additional teacher and a pupil teacher | 939 | 113 | 1,052 |