§ Major EDMONDSONasked the President of the Board of Education whether local authorities can obtain information from the Board as to its requirements with regard to cubic space per child to enable them to make preliminary estimates as to the cost of new school buildings; is he aware that it is important to the education department of local authorities that the department should be in a position to give to their finance committee a reasonably accurate provisional estimate of the probable cost of such buildings before they embark upon the expense of obtaining architects' plans; and will the Board of Education give their final consent for the erection of a school where an application for a grant is made before the finished plans are produced for their inspection?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANThe advice of the Board's architects' department and of His Majesty's inspectors is at the disposal of local education authorities872W which are contemplating the erection of new school buildings at all stages, from the inception of the project to the final approval of plans. It is the Board's practice to approve in principle the erection of a new school prior to the submission of finished plans, but their final sanction is dependent on their approval of such plans.