Mr. T. THOMSONasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that some of the economies proposed by the Committee on National Expenditure are in the nature of a transfer of charge from the National Exchequer to the local rates; and whether he will supply an estimate of the amount by which the local rates will be increased if such proposals were adopted?
Mr. LEWISThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. Any estimate of the amount by which local rates would be increased would be so conjectural and involve so many hypotheses that it would have little, if any, value.