§ Mr. Lewisasked the Minister of Education to publish in HANSARD a table of figures showing the annual amounts spent on education for each of the years from 1945 until the latest stated date, showing the comparative purchasing value of the money so expended by taking into account the depreciation of the purchasing value of the£ since 1945.
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§ Miss HorsbrughThe expenditure from rates and taxes on educational services within the purview of my Department has been as follows:
£ (000) 1945–46 … … 151,583 1946–47 … … 185,023 1947–48 … … 216,675 1948–49 … … 247,596 1949–50 … … 267,903 1950–51 … … 278,494 1951–52 … … 315,912 1952–53 (Est.) … … 346,527 No index of prices is available which could properly be used to correct the above figures for the changes in the prices of educational services.