§ Mr. F. ROBERTSasked the President of the Board of Education whether the provision made by an education committee in its estimates for a grant of £50 towards the funds of an officers' cadet corps in a secondary school is expenditure sanctioned by his Department?
§ Lord E. PERCYThe view taken by the Board is that the subscriptions of pupils to cadet corps should be fixed at such a figure as to make the corps self-supporting, and that there should be recognised for grant only the payment by the local authority of the whole (or part) of the subscription in cases where pupils who desire to join the corps could not afford to do so without such assistance.