§ Sir R. Askeasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will now sympathetically consider the desirability of introducing legislation to the effect that education authorities shall or may provide boots and clothing for needy school children?
Mr. LindsayI would refer my hon. and learned Friend to the reply which I gave to the hon. Member for Farnworth (Mr. Tomlinson) on 24th February, 1938, which applies to the provision of clothing as well as of footwear.