§ MR. MIDDLEMORE (Birmingham, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether the Board of Education are about to issue a circular to local education authorities requiring the recognised accommodation in all existing schools to be on the ten foot basis per child, and that the grants will for the future only be given on that basis; and, if so, under what section of what Act of Parliament the Board of Education propose to reduce the accommodation which they sanctioned in the plans on which the schools were built.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (MR. MCKENNA, Monmouthshire, N.)As has already been announced in the prefatory memorandum to the Code, the Board propose to take steps to revise the numbers for which public elementary schools are at present recognised, with a view to securing eventually in every school a minimum of ten square feet of floor space for each child in attendance. The reduction of accommodation can be carried out under Article 19 of the Code, read in conjunc- 1608 tion with Section 97 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870
§ LORD BALCARRES (Lancashire, Chorley)When will the Return be issued?
§ MR. McKENNAI do not think a Return is needed.