DR. RUTHERFORDI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education if he can state the latest available figures of the number of scholars on the registers of public elementary schools in England and Wales.
§ MR. TREVELYANThe latest available figures relate to the statistical year ending 31st July, 1907, when the number was 6,003,772. The figures for the statistical year ending 31st July, 1908, will be available in about a month.