HC Deb 07 April 1938 vol 334 cc516-7
48. Mr. Adamson

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the numbers of senior mixed and junior mixed elementary schools in England and Wales in each of the years from 1930 to 1936; and the number of women head-teachers employed in such schools for each of the same years?

Mr. Lindsay

As the answer is in tabular form I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Following is the answer:

respectively, are taught in schools to which reorganisation, as contemplated by the Hadow Report, has been applied?

Mr. Lindsay

I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a tabular statement answering these questions.

Following is the statement:

Table showing the position on 31st March, 1937, the latest date for which figures relating to school attendance are available:—
— West Suffolk. Salop.
Number of reorganised departments. 26 90
Total number of departments. 147 310
Number of children in reorganised departments. 2,681 10,777
Number of children in all departments. 10,807 26,327
Percentage of children in reorganised departments. 24.8 40.9

Since that date eight more departments have been reorganised in West Suffolk and 18 in Salop.

52. Mr. Ede

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education how many schemes of reorganisation have been approved in the borough of Reigate; and what percentage of elementary school children in the borough are taught in schools to which reorganisation, as contemplated by the Hadow Report, has been applied?

Mr. Lindsay

As the answer consists of a tabular statement I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Following is the statement:

The position on 31st March, 1937, the latest date for which figures relating to attendance are available, was as follows:

Number of reorganised departments 11
Total number of departments 23
Number of children in reorganised departments 1,373
Number of children in all departments 3,334
Percentage of children in reorganised departments 41

No departments have been reorganised since the above-mentioned date.