§ Miss LAWRENCEasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that in more than one elementary school in London the class-rooms have been remodelled on the basis of 10 square feet of floor space for older children and nine square feet for infants, instead of the 12 square feet for older children and the 10 square feet for younger children required by the Board's building regulations of 1924; and has this departure been sanctioned by the Board?
§ Lord E. PERCYNo, Sir; so far as I am aware, all recent plans for remodelling London elementary schools, with one minor exception, have been on the 12–10 square feet basis, but I must point out that the Regulations referred to applied only to newly-erected premises, and were not, therefore, necessarily aplicable to the remodelling of existing premises.