§ 38. Mr. G. MACDONALDasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the number of pupils attending the rate-aided secondary schools in Lancashire, including the county boroughs as well as the administrative county, and also the number of free places granted in such schools in 1931, 1934, and 1935?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMIn the area in question the number of pupils in secondary schools which were in receipt of aid from the rates on the 1st October, 1930, 1933 and 1934 was 32,537, 36,070 and 37,030 respectively. The number of free places or special places carrying total remission of fees awarded at the beginning of the school years 1930–31, 1933–34 and 1934–35 was 3,886, 3,585 and 3,663. At the beginning of the last two years there were in addition 442 and 434 awards of special places carrying partial remission of fees.