§ Colonel DAYasked the President of the Board of Education the names of educational authorities who have tabulated proposals for new secondary schools; and the amount of accommodation now available?
§ Lord E. PERCYThe information asked for in the first part of the question is as follows:
A. England.
(i) Counties:
Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devonshire, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lancashire, Lincs. (Lindsey), London, Middlesex, Norfolk, North-amptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxon, Salop, Somerset, Staffordshire, East Suffolk, Surrey, East Sussex, West Sussex, Warwickshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire (North Riding), Yorkshire (West Riding).
(ii) County Boroughs:
Barrow-in-Furness, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bootle, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton, Burnley, Burton-upon-Trent, Coventry, Croydon, Derby, East Ham, Kingston-upon-Hull, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Rochdale, St. Helens, Sheffield, Smethwick, Southampton, Southend-on-Sea, South-port, Stockport, Stoke-on-Trent, Sunderland, Walsall, Warrington, West Ham.
845WB. Wales.
(i) Counties:
Carmarthenshire, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire.
(ii) County Boroughs:
Cardiff, Swansea.
As regards the second part, there were on 1st October last 359,444 pupils in grant-earning secondary schools.