§ Lieut.-Colonel WHELERasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the Education Accounts (Annual Statement) Order, 1921, issued by the Board on 13th December, 1921, will, if enforced, put county education committees to considerably increased administrative expense owing to the large amount of detail required to complete the forms required by the Board; and whether he will, in the interests of economical administration, withdraw the Order?
§ Mr. FISHERI may refer the hon. and gallant Member to the answer which I gave on the 1st May to the hon. and gallant Member for the Moss Side Division of Manchester (Lieut.-Colonel Hurst). The advantage of getting fuller information as to local educational expenditure appears to me to outweigh the disadvantage of any additional administrative expense such as may be involved by the work of rendering the information.