§ Mr. GOLDSTONEasked the President of the Board of Education what additional number of free places would be available in the 125 secondary schools which have been allowed to make less than the usual provision of 25 per cent. of free places in the event of the general application of the normal requirement?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI regret that, owing to a clerical error, the answer I gave the hon. Member on 22nd February was slightly inaccurate. The number of schools in which a reduction of the normal requirement has been made is 124, not 125 as stated. In these 124 schools the number of free places actually required for the current school year was 957. The number which would have been required at the full rate of 25 per cent. is 1,820. But the number actually given was 1,201, and fifty-four more were offered but not taken up. Therefore the additional number of free places which would have been available over and above those actually offered is 565.