§ 19. Sir WILLIAM JENKINSasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will give an assurance that money spent by the Glamorgan Education Authority in supplying a pair of boots to every necessitous child in the elementary schools on the King's Jubilee, will rank for grant purposes, or whether the Board will make a grant for any other purpose that would assist necessitous children to join in the celebrations?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMIf reasonable expenditure of the kind proposed is incurred by local education authorities in connection with the celebrations of the King's Jubiliee and is passed by the district auditor, the board will be prepared to recognise it for grant under Article 2 (b) of their Grant Regulations No. 1. It should, however, be understood that such recognition would be given in pursuance of the general sanction of the Minister of Health to expenditure by local authorities on the. Jubilee celebrations and would not affect the board's view that the provision of boots for necessitous children is in normal circumstances outside the powers of local education authorities.