§ Captain GUNSTONasked the President of the Board of Education the grants paid to local authorities in respect of educational services for the years 1928–29 and 1929–30, respectively?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANThe grants paid by the Board of Education to local education authorities for the year 1928–29 amounted to £39,584,000. Figures for the year 1929–30 cannot be given until the audited accounts of local education authorities' expenditure for 1929–30 have been received and examined and the grants settled. The grants paid by the Board of Education to local education authorities in 1929–30 amounted to £39,177,000 which compares with £39,103,000 paid in 1928–29.