§ Colonel ENGLANDasked the President of the Board of Education whether, in view of the effect on the labour market of the releasing on one day, 1st April, of 190,000 elementary-school children in consequence of the Regulation which prohibits such children on attaining the age of 14 from leaving school until the end of the term, he will consider either the return to the old system whereby they were allowed to leave school on reaching 14 or else arrange for additional leaving dates to be fixed?
§ Lord E. PERCYThis is a matter which will doubtless come within the scope of the deliberations of the Committee which my right hon. Friend the Minister of Labour and I have set up to inquire into and advise upon the public system of education in relation to the requirements of trade and industry.