§ Captain LOSEBYasked the President of the Board of Education whether 25 per cent. of free places for elementary school boys is the normal requirement for Grant-earning secondary schools, and if he will 1247W furnish a Return of the schools wherein less than 25 per cent. has been sanctioned with the reasons there for; if he will further state if it is intended to relax this Regulation for other schools likely to ask for Grants from the Board in the future: and, if so, whether a revision of the compulsory 25 per cent. on schools already compelled to take the proportion is intended?
§ Mr. FISHERTwenty-five per cent. is the normal requirement. I will furnish the Return asked for by the hon. Member. As at present advised, I see no reason to depart from the past practice of the Board in considering, on their merits, applications from individual schools for modification of the maximum requirement.