§ MR. D. A. THOMASI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the cost of school maintenance per child in Glamorganshire for the year ending 30th November last, based on the average attendance, was 16s. 9d., or 38 per cent. higher in the provided than in the non-provided schools; and whether this excess is due to unnecessary expenditure on the part of the local education authority or to a higher standard of efficiency being required by the Education Department in the case of provided schools.
§ MR. McKENNAMy attention has not previously been called to the statistics given in the first part of my hon. friend's Question. It is not, I am glad to say, one of the duties of the Board of 276 Education to ascertain the reasons why the cost of maintenance of certain schools is greater than that of others.
§ LORD R. CECILasked if it were not the practice of local education authorities in South Wales consistently to underpay their teachers?
§ MR. McKENNAasked for notice of the Question.