§ Brigadier-General WIGANasked the President of the Board of Education whether the schools aided by the Essex education authority belong to the class referred to in paragraph 4 of the Burn-ham Committee's Report on salaries in secondary schools as secondary schools in which the local education authority accepts responsibility for salary scales; and, if so, why the term of the Burnham Report in respect of these schools for the year ending 31st March, 1921, has not been-put in force, though it has been put in force in respect of maintained schools in Essex?
§ Mr. FISHERI have no information on the subject beyond what is given in the printed minutes of the Education Committee. From these, I gather, that while the authority are prepared to consider applications from secondary schools which are aided by them for assistance to enable those schools to adopt the scale recommended in the Burnham Secondary Report, subject to certain conditions as from the 1st April, 1921, they have stipulated that no charge should fall upon county funds in respect of expenditure for the purpose before that date.