§ 38. Mr. EDEasked the President of the Board of Education in how many cases during the five years prior to the issue of Circular 1413 the Board have made representations to, or withheld grants from, local education authorities in respect of the expenditure of such authorities on the salaries and wages of officers other than teachers?
§ Sir D. MACLEANThe expenditure of local education authorities on administration, in common with all their other expenditure, is scrutinised by the Board with a view to ascertaining whether any part of it is not recognisable as expenditure in aid of which Parliamentary grants should be made; and when this is the case such expenditure is excluded in the calculation of the Board's grant. I regret that the Board have no available record of the number of cases in which they have made representations to, or withheld grants from, authorities in respect of their expenditure on administration.
§ Mr. EDEIs not the reason for the last part of the answer the fact that this paragraph is absolutely without precedent, the Board hitherto having regarded the fixing of these salaries and wages as a matter within the competence of the local authority with which they have had no concern?
§ Sir D. MACLEANI will see whether the. Board may not start a record of the kind which the hon. Member needs.