§ 83. Mr. TREVELYANasked the President of the Board of Education how many schools have been condemned in 639 the survey concluded last year; and whether he has taken, and is still taking, steps to require these schools to be improved or replaced within the next three years, and what those steps are?
§ The PRESIDENT of the BOARD of EDUCATION (Lord Eustace Percy)The number of cases in which the Board's recognition of the premises of public elementary schools in their present condition has been limited to a definite period is 44; in two other cases of the same kind the premises were replaced by new schools during last year. There were cases in which the inadequacy of the premises had been revealed before, and independently of, the survey. I am satisfied, on the information which comes before me from time to time, that the matter is being seriously considered by authorities and school managers, and careful note will be taken of the action proposed for dealing with defective school premises in the examination of the programmes which I have asked authorities to submit to me.