§ Mr. Sorensenasked the President of the Board of Education whether he can state, for the year 1938–39, the percentage of ex-public elementary school pupils, aged between 10 and 11, admitted to secondary schools in the county councils of Durham, Essex, Glamorgan, Kent, Lancashire, Merionethshire, Staffordshire, Surrey and the West Riding, and in the county boroughs of Birmingham, Blackpool, Bolton, Bradford, Brighton, Burnley, Eastbourne, Gateshead, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Merthyr Tydfil, Oxford, St. Helens, Southport, Swansea, Wallasey, West Ham and West Hartlepool?
§ Mr. ButlerI regret that the information required is not available, since under war conditions the collection and compilation of statistics has been reduced to a minimum.