§ Mr. EDEasked the President of the Board of Education how many local authorities have so far carried through no schemes of reorganisation on the lines of the Hadow Report; and what action he is taking to ensure that in those areas, and in others in which reorganisation has not covered a large proportion of the population, adequate reorganisation shall have taken place by September, 1939?
Mr. STANLEYOn the 31st March, 1936, there were nine local education authorities which had no departments of public elementary schools, other than departments for infants only, organised on the lines recommended in the Hadow Report. The attention of local authorities was drawn to the urgent need for pressing on with the completion of reorganisation in a Circular (No. 1444), dated the 6th January last, and to assist them in expediting the work the rate of grant on school buildings was increased to 50 per cent., as from the 1st January, 1936. Substantial progress is being made and the Board are in close touch with the authorities.