§ Sir JAMES YOXALLasked the President of the Board of Education whether it is the intention of the Board of Education to issue forms of attendance registers for use in schools and classes recognised under the Regulations of technical schools, etc., for the year 1910–11; whether an announcement of this intention was made sufficiently early to prevent the publishers who have hitherto supplied these registers in the ordinary way of trade preparing their stock for the year; and whether anything can be done to prevent or recoup the loss involved upon such publishers by the issue of the commodity from the Board itself?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. With regard to the second and third parts of the question, the Regulations of the Board as to registration of such schools and classes are always liable to alteration from year to year, as the publishers are well aware, so that, in any event, the publishers may reasonably be expected to wait the issue of the Regulations before they prepare their stock. I am afraid I cannot see my way to postpone the initiation of a very necessay reform for the benefit of publishers who have not taken this precaution. I may say that, incidentally, the local education authorities and managers will be relieved of a certain amount of expenditure which they were previously called upon to incur in providing registers locally.