§ 54. Mr. HOAREasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will state the number of children of each year of elementary school age who left school in 1911–12?
Mr. PEASEI am unable to give the hon. Member the information for which he asks. No statistics on the subject have been collected by the Board.
§ Mr. HOAREHas the right hon. Gentleman considered the advantage of going back to the practice which I believe prevailed before 1903 of publishing these statistics in the Annual Volume of the Board of Education?
Mr. PEASEI have considered how far it would be possible to supply such statistics, but it seemed to me that the value of the information given would not be equal to the labour involved.