HC Deb 18 June 1931 vol 253 c1928
31. Mr. MORLEY

asked the President of the Board of Education to what extent reorganisation into junior and senior schools has now taken place throughout the country?

Mr. LEES-SMITH

It is very difficult to describe in statistical form, or within the limits of a Parliamentary answer, the extent to which reorganisation in elementary schools has now been carried out. But I would refer my hon. Friend to the account of this matter given on pages 7–9 of the Board's Report for 1930, which indicates that on 31st March, 1930, about one-fifth of the children over 11 were in reorganised schools or departments: the proportion is now probably between one-quarter and a third.

Mr. MORLEY

Has this reorganisation led to diminution of the staff to any appreciable extent?