§ Mr. R. RICHARDSONasked the President of the Board of Education if the Board has advised local education authorities not to feed school children whose malnutrition is due to temporary or chronic destitution of their parents; and why, seeing that the Education Act, 1921, does not permit differentiation among the many causes of malnutrition, this action has been taken?
§ Mr. E. WOODI find in Section 84 of the Education Act, 1921, no authority for thinking that it was the intention of Parliament that a considerable part of the burden of the relief of destitution should be shifted on to the education rate and the Vote of the Board of Education. I have seen no reason to depart from the principles of administration laid down in this respect by the late Government and my predecessor.