§ Mr. HANNONasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is in a position to indicate what percentage of the population in this country between the ages of 14 and 16 years are receiving continuous whole-time education?
§ Mr. TREVELYANFrom information supplied to me by the Registrar-General, I learn that, according to the figures of the 1921 Census, out of the total population of 1,465,000, between the ages of 14 and 16, 348,805 were under full-time instruction in schools and institutions in England and Wales, making a percentage of 23.8. It must, however, be borne in mind that a little less than half this number were in public elementary schools, and of these a large proportion would not stay beyond the end of the term in which they reached the age of 14.