Mr. David Adamsasked the Parliament Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will issue a statement showing the local education authorities autonomous for elementary education which are providing conveyance for school children attending non-provided schools?
Mr. LindsayI will send to the hon. Member, as soon as the information is completed, a list showing the local education authorities for elementary education which include in their estimates a sum for the provision of transport facilities for school children under Section 88 (1) of the Education Act, 1921. The Board have no note that any of these authorities confine these facilities to children attending council schools.
Mr. David Adamsasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will give the names of any education authority which, because of necessitous circumstances, finds itself unable to provide facilities for the conveyance of non-provided school children?
Mr. LindsayThe Board's records do not show whether the decision of any local education authority not to provide, in any 375W given case, facilities for the conveyance of school children was determined by its alleged inability to meet its share of the cost.