62. Major HOPEasked the Secretary for Scotland if he has made any estimate of the cost of providing the additional school accommodation which will be necessary if the Scotch Education Department Minute of 27th March, 1911, reducing the size of classes from sixty to fifty is enforced; and what will be the probable amount of the rise in the education rate in poor and populous areas where the classes are now all up to the present maximum of sixty?
Mr. McKINNON WOODI am sending the lion, and gallant Member a copy of the Minute to which he refers, so that he may see what its precise effect would be. He will see that it would not be possible to 1008 make the estimate he desires. I am not aware of any districts where all the classes are now up to the maximum of sixty.
Major HOPEMay I ask the right hon. Gentleman if he will accept my statement, that according to a calculation which has been made the rise in the education rate in some of those areas may be 5d. in the £?