§ Mr. TOWNENDasked the President of the Board of Education, if he can inform the House of the number of elementary school children in Lancashire and Cheshire who passed the necessary examination qualifying them for entry into a secondary school; and for how many such children places were found?
§ Lord E. PERCYI have not the information for which the hon. Member Asks. The number of children who are recorded as having left public elementary schools in the areas in question during 1925–26, in order to attend secondary schools, was 5,130 boys and 3,979 girls.