§ Mr. T. DAVIESasked the President of the Board of Education why the following promise contained in paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Grant Regulations is not to be fulfilled during 1919–20, thus causing L.E.A. great trouble: A deficiency grant will be payable for the financial year beginning 1st April, 1919, which will be payable by instalments during the year, and will be finally adjusted, etc.?
§ Mr. FISHERI understand this question to relate to Deficiency Grants in respect of Higher Education. Deficiency Grants are being paid by instalments during the year 1919–20 to those Authorities in whose areas the returns for the most recently completed year, viz., 1918–19, afford a basis for the calculation of such instalments. In the other areas the payment will be made as soon as the expenditure of the year now current and the substantive grants payable within the year shall have been ascertained.