§ 43 Mr. PARKINSONasked the President of the Board of Education if he will bring up to date the statement regarding local education authorities and free places in secondary schools which he made on 26th January, 1931?
§ Sir D. MACLEANAs the answer contains a number of figures I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the answer:
1015| STATEMENT of Local Education Authorities in whose Areas the Board have approved the award of free places tenable at grant—aided Secondary Schools, in excess of 50 per cent. of the admissions in the previous school year. | |||||
| The third column shows the number of free places awarded at grant—aided Secondary Schools at the beginning of the school year 1931–32, calculated as a percentage of the number of pupils admitted to these schools during the school year 1930–31. | |||||
| Local Education Authority. | Number of Schools. | Percentage. | |||
| I. | Areas in which all the Schools are free. | ||||
| Smethwick County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | — | |
| II. | Areas in which some of the Schools are free. | ||||
| Wallasey County Borough Council | … | … | 5 | 55.0 | |
| Plymouth County Borough Council | … | … | 8 | 59.8 | |
| Durham County Council | … | … | 22 | 94.1 | |
| Darlington County Borough Council | … | … | 5 | 58.1 | |
| Manchester County Borough Council | … | … | 17 | 66.5 | |
| Oldham County Borough Council | … | … | 3 | 63.9 | |
| Bradford County Borough Council | … | … | 13 | 85.8 | |
| Sheffield County Borough Council | … | … | 9 | 74.1 | |
| Glamorgan County Council | … | … | 33 | 75.8 | |
| Cardiff County Borough Council | … | … | 11 | 69.1 | |
| Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council | … | … | 4 | 73.2 | |
| Newport County Borough Council | … | … | 5 | 64.9 | |
| III. | Areas in which none of the Schools is free. | ||||
| Gateshead County Borough Council | … | … | 1 | 56.6 | |
| East Ham County Borough Council | … | … | 1 | 56.9 | |
| West Ham County Borough Council | … | … | 5 | 71.4 | |
| Barrow County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 97.0 | |
| Blackburn County Borough Council | … | … | 3 | 52.5 | |
| Blackpool County Borough Council | … | … | 4 | 73.0 | |
| Bootle County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 71.6 | |
| Burnley County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 58.6 | |
| Preston County Borough Council | … | … | 5 | 53.8 | |
| Leicestershire County Council | … | … | 14 | 56.2 | |
| Northampton County Borough Council | … | … | 3 | 54.2 | |
| Burton—on—Trent County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 54.5 | |
| Stoke—on—Trent County Borough Council | … | … | 4 | 85.2 | |
| Walsall County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 70.4 | |
| West Bromwich County Borough Council | … | … | 1 | 58.2 | |
| York County Borough Council | … | … | 6 | 55.2 | |
| Yorkshire, West Riding County Council | … | … | 51 | 62.5 | |
| Barnsley County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 78.0 | |
| Dewsbury County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 52.5 | |
| Doncaster County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 84.1 | |
| Halifax County Borough Council | … | … | 4 | 108.0 | |
| Huddersfield County Borough Council | … | … | 4 | 80.3 | |
| Rotherham County Borough Council | … | … | 2 | 55.2 | |
| Wakefield County Borough Council | … | … | 4 | 77.5 | |
| Anglesey County Council | … | … | 3 | 67.2 | |
| Brecon County Council | … | … | 5 | 77.5 | |
| Caernarvon County Council | … | … | 10 | 52.1 | |
| Flint County Council | … | … | 6 | 50.4 | |
| Merioneth County Council | … | … | 7 | 58.3 | |
| Monmouthshire County Council | … | … | 18 | 55.6 | |
| Montgomery County Council | … | … | 8 | 6[...].8 | |
| Radnor County Council | … | … | 2 | 71.9 |
§ 48. Mr. THORNEasked the President of the Board of Education if he is aware that the Middlesex County Council has decided to increase the secondary school fees from £1 11s. 6d. to £4 4s. per term for children attending the Edmonton 1016 secondary school; if he can state whether he has considered the protest made by the Edmonton education committee about the matter; and whether he intends taking any action?
§ Sir D. MACLEANThe Middlesex County Council have submitted to the Board a proposal to increase to £4 4s. per term the fees in certain secondary schools, including the Latymer School, Edmonton. This proposal will receive careful consideration, but I cannot yet say what the Board's decision will be. I have not received any protest from the Edmonton education committee on the matter.
§ Mr. THORNEIf the suggestion made by the Middlesex County Council is carried out will it not prevent a very large number of children attending secondary schools on account of the extraordinary high fees?
§ Sir D. MACLEANI have not said that that suggestion has been accepted.