§ VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH (Maidstone)To ask the President of the Board of Education if he will state the names of the local education authorities proposing to establish training colleges, and the accommodation to be afforded in each case.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) Schemes for the provision of ten training colleges have been received from local education 1131 authorities, and are now under consideration by the Board. In seven other cases the provision of a college is known to be under discussion by the local authority, but no definite proposals have been submitted to the Board. Inasmuch as many of these schemes are in a very early stage of preparation, and in some cases the Board have been requested by the local authority to regard the information as confidential for financial reasons, I am unable at present to give the names of the authorities concerned.