§ 42. Mr. T. SMITHasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education what is the scale of maintenance allowances made where children are exempt from special place fees; how many 205 local education authorities make these allowances; and how many children are affected?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMThe scales of maintenance allowances to pupils in secondary schools, in respect of whom no fees are charged, vary as between one local education authority and another. In the financial year 1932–33, 142 local education authorities in England and Wales granted such allowances, and 110,438 children received them.