§ MR. BARNES (Glasgow, Blackfriars)To ask the Secretary for Scotland if he has any information as to the extent to which Section 3 of The Employment and Attendance of Children at School in Scotland Act, 1901, has been put into operation.
(Answered by Mr. Sinclair.) The numbers of exemptions granted by school boards in terms of Section 3 of The Education (Scotland) Act, 1901, in the years for which information on the subject is available, have been—
Of these there were granted conditionally—
1903 9,364 1904 8,849 1905 7,822 1906 8,197
1903 7,332 1904 6,942 1905 5,777 1906 5,875