§ 42. Mr. ARNOTTasked the President of the Board of Education the estimated annual cost to the Board and the local authorities, respectively, of providing the existing facilities for secondary education free up to the age of 16, and up to the age of 18 years?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANIf the amount now paid by parents and guardians in secondary school tuition fees were to be replaced from public funds, the estimated annual cost would be about £2,500,000 in respect of pupils up to the age of 16, or about £2,800,000 in respect of pupils up to the age of 18. In view of the different methods in which secondary schools receive assistance from public funds, it is not practicable to state how this cost would be shared between the Board of Education and the local authorities.