§ Captain LOSEBYasked the President of the Board of Education if he will state the approximate percentage of pupils trained in primary schools under his control who afterwards proceed, without payment of fees, to a full-time training in secondary schools?
§ Mr. FISHERThe Board have no tabulated figures later than those for 1913–14. In that year, 3.2 per cent, of the pupils who left public elementary schools in England and Wales proceeded, without payment of fees, to secondary schools on the Grant List. These free places cover the whole school life of the pupils in the secondary school to which they proceed. The percentage is probably now appreciably larger, but I cannot estimate, even approximately, the amount of its increase.