HC Deb 16 March 1939 vol 345 c633W
Mr. Groves

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that his inspectors have refused to allow for grant expenditure of £1,162 2s. 6d. incurred by the Borough of West Ham in entertaining the schoolchildren in the parks and recreation grounds, including the presentation of 6d. to each scholar in an appropriately printed envelope, as part of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the in corporation of West Ham as a borough, on Wednesday, 8th July, 1936; and, as the schools were closed on this day with the consent of his inspectors and similar gifts were allowed to rank for grant on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee in 1935 and of the Coronation in 1937, will he reconsider the decision not to allow the expenditure to rank for grant on this occasion?

Mr. Lindsay

I have arranged to receive a deputation next week to discuss this matter.