§ Mr. TINKERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the number of school children who were receiving meals under the Act for the feeding of necessitous school children for the years 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932; and the corresponding figures for Lancashire?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMMy Noble Friend regrets that figures for calendar years are not available. The following table shows the number of children who received meals, including milk "meals," during each of the financial years from 1928–29 to 1931–32:
tion, and, as I stated on Monday last in reply to my Noble Friend the Member for Basingstoke (Viscount Lymington), the Government are not prepared to introduce the fresh legislation that would be required.