HC Deb 07 April 1932 vol 264 c297
30. Mr. GORDON MACDONALD

asked the President of the Board of Education the number of children who left school at the school-leaving age in Great Britain during the latest 12 months for which figures are available, giving separate figures for Lancashire?

Sir D. MACLEAN

During the year ended 31st March, 1931, the number of children leaving public elementary schools in England and Wales at the school-leaving age, otherwise than for further full-time education, was 390,935. The corsresponding figure for the geographical county of Lancashire was 54,262.