§ Mr. PURCHASEasked the President of the Board of Education whether there is any minimum for attendance fixed by the various local education authorities in England and Wales before voluntary evening classes are opened for any particular subject; if such classes are closed down if the attendance falls below such limit; what such limit is: and whether there is any variation as between town and country districts?
§ Mr. FISHERI understand that many local education authorities have made a regulation of the nature described by the hon. Member, but the limits, both for the opening and for the closing down of classes, vary in different areas. I am afraid I cannot summarise the practice of the authorities in these matters.