§ Colonel WEDGWOODasked the President of the Board of Education the amount of capital expenditure on schools, elementary and other, by local authorities during each of the last four years and during the year 1913–14?
§ Mr. E. WOODThe capital expenditure of local education authorities is, as a rule, defrayed from loans. The sums expended out of loans for the years 1912–1913 and 1918–1921 are as follow:
— Elementary Education. Higher Education. Total. £ £ £ 1912–13 2,289,594 844,053 3,133,647 1918–19 85,233 24,192 109,425 1919–20 298,700 498,533 797,233 1920–21 843,749 1,226,713 2,070,462 I regret that, owing to the suspension during the War of the collection of statistics of expenditure, I cannot give figures for the year 1913–1914, and have accordingly substituted those for 1912–1913. The corresponding information for the year 1921–1922 is not yet complete. It must not be overlooked that the actual 318W expenditure out of loans in a given year frequently represents commitments incurred in the previous year.