§ Mr. A. Walkdenasked the Minister of Education if he will give a list, by administrative counties, of those county districts, distinguishing between boroughs and urban districts, which were eligible by population on 30th June, 1939, or school roll on 31st March, 1939, to be excepted districts if a claim to that effect was made before 1st October, 1944; and 1605W will he indicate which of these districts have, and which have not, made such a claim.
§ Mr. ButlerFollowing is a list of those boroughs and urban districts which, under
Boroughs Urban Districts Bedfordshire … … Luton Cambridgeshire … … Cambridge Derbyshire … … Chesterfield Dorset … … Poole Durham Co. … … Stockton-on-Tees *Stanley Essex … … Barking Hornchurch Dagenham Thurrock Ilford Leyton Romford Walthamstow Hertfordshire … … Watford Kent … … Beckenham Chislehurst and Sidcup Bexley Bromley Gillingham Lancashire … … Widnes Middlesex … … Acton Enfield Brentford and Chiswick Harrow Ealing Hayes and Harlington Edmonton Finchley Hendon Heston and Isleworth Hornsey Southgate Tottenham Twickenham Wembley Willesden Staffordshire … … Newcastle-under-Lyme Surrey … … *Epsom and Ewell * Carshalton *Mitcham *Merton and Morden *Sutton and Cheam Sussex, West … … Worthing Wiltshire … … Swindon Worcestershire … … Oldbury Wales Glamorgan … … Rhondda All the above Boroughs and Urban Districts have lodged a claim to become excepted districts with the exception of those marked with an asterisk.