§ Major GRAYasked the President of the Board of Education whether any grant would be payable under the regulations of the Board of Education on account of a pupil under 10 years of age attending a secondary school on the grant list; and whether, if a local education authority maintain a secondary school attended by pupils under the age of 10, and others over the age of 10, and the grants payable by the Board in respect of scholars over the age of 10 are less than 50 per cent, of the cost of maintaining the school, the local authority would be entitled to claim from the Board 50 per cent, of its expenditure 2367W on such school, thereby indirectly receiving Parliamentary grant in respect of pupils under the age of 10 in a secondary school?
Mr. LEWISIn the calculation of substantive grants in aid of secondary schools, account is not taken of children who are under 10 years old at the beginning of the school year. The Board have not hitherto required the apportionment and exclusion of expenditure on children under 10 in secondary schools from the general expenditure on which deficiency grant is calculated.