53. Duchess of ATHOLLasked the President of the Board of Education whether the estimate of £2,500,000 given in the Financial Memorandum to the Education School Attendance Bill as the estimated total cost of extra teaching staff, accommodation, maintenance of buildings, etc., for the proposed additional age group includes the cost of the reorganisation of elementary schools throughout England and Wales; and, if not, what he estimates the total cost will be, allowing for the cost of such reorganisation?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. As regards the second part, I am not at present in a position to frame an estimate of the cost of the reorganisation of elementary schools in England and Wales.