HC Deb 09 December 1929 vol 233 cc72-3W
Mr. ANGELL

asked the President of the Board of Education the estimated total number of children on the register of public elementary schools on 31st March of each of the 10 years from 1930 to 1939; and the estimated number of children who will leave the public elementary schools and receive no further general education in the course of each of the same years, assuming that the rate of variation of numbers of available places in secondary schools remain unaltered during that period?

Sir C. TREVELYAN

The estimated numbers of children aged five and over on the registers of public elementary schools at 31st March in the years 1930 to 1939 are as follow:

On 31st March, 1930 … 5,353,000
On 31st March, 1931 … 5,342,000
On 31st March, 1932 … 5,771,600
On 31st March, 1933 … 5,769,000
On 31st March, 1934 … 5,772,000
On 31st March, 1935 … 5,662,000
On 31st March, 1936 … 5,487,000
On 31st March, 1937 … 5,335,000
On 31st March, 1938 … 5,241,000
On 31st March, 1939 … 5,170,000

The second part of the question involves actuarial calculations which I am afraid could not be undertaken without an undue expenditure of labour, and the results of which must be largely conjectural. I am sending my hon. Friend a copy of a Circular (No. 1395) which contains a report by the Government Actuary on the future numbers of children in public elementary schools.