§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the President of the Board of Education separately the number of provided and non-provided secondary schools receiving assistance from the State or rates, giving particulars of the kinds of non-provided schools?
§ Lord E. PERCYOn 1st January, 1929, the number of grant-aided secondary schools in England and Wales was 692 provided schools and 648 non-provided schools. The latter consisted of 82 Roman Catholic schools, 464 Foundation and other schools, and 102 Welsh intermediate schools.
§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the President of the Board of Education the percentage of free places in secondary schools compared with the total number of scholars attending, provided and non-provided?
§ Lord E. PERCYOn 1st October, 1928, the percentage of free-place pupils in grant-aided secondary schools was as follows:
Per cent. Provided schools … 45.8 Non-provided schools … 33.1
§ Mr. WHITELEYasked the President of the Board of Education the percentage of the scholars available for secondary education who are granted free secondary education, provided and non-provided?
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§ Lord E. PERCYI assume that the hon. Member has in mind the number of pupils receiving free, education in grant-aided secondary schools expressed as a percentage of the appropriate age-group of the population. On 1st October, 1928, the percentage borne by pupils to whom free places, under Article 15 of the Regulations for Secondary Schools, were awarded for the first time to the number of children between 10 and 11 according to the estimate of populations in July, 1927, was in provided schools 3.6 and in non-provided schools 2.1. In addition an unascertainable number of entrants to grant-aided secondary schools not holding free places under Article 15 received free education.