§ 21. Mr. Edmund Harveyasked the President of the Board of Education, whether he can give figures, to the latest convenient date, of the number of classes in public elementary schools and in grant-aided secondary schools whose size is larger than the standard maximum hitherto accepted by the Board?
§ Mr. ButlerOwing to the necessity for reducing the collection of statistics to a minimum, I am unable to give particulars of the size of classes during the war period.
§ Mr. HarveyIs the right hon. Gentleman satisfied that there is not a great deal of overcrowding in infant schools, and should not this be dealt with?
§ Mr. ButlerI cannot deny that there is some overcrowding, and we are trying to improve the conditions all the time.