Mr. JOHN GORDON (Londonderry)asked the Home Secretary what was the amount of expenditure for the last financial year for administration and for inspection, respectively, of reformatory and industrial schools in England and in Wales?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe whole cost of the schools, excluding Home Office inspection, for the year ended 31st December, 1911, was £609,011, of which £193,376 was provided from moneys voted by Parliament. The cost of inspection for the year ended 31st March, 1911, was £10,162. England and Wales cannot be separated, and Scotland is included in the figure of the cost of inspection, as the same staff inspects schools in Scotland and in England and Wales.