§ Mr. KINGasked the President of the Board of Education whether any progress has been made in the matter of the repairs, alterations, enlargements, improvements, or provision of playgrounds in the case of the 124 elementary schools in London scheduled in the survey report of the Board made in May, 1914, on unsatisfactory school premises?
Mr. PEASEThe Board's letter of 14th April last, to which the schedule of voluntary school premises was an enclosure, offered to every body of managers an opportunity of conferring with the Board's architect, inspectors, and other officers upon any steps which they might desire to take to remedy the defects pointed out in the inspectors' reports. Many such 1347W conferences have been held and are being held almost daily. In some cases improvements have already been effected, and, so far as the Board can judge, the reports are likely to result in very considerable improvements to the large majority of the schools in question.