§ 63. Sir H. Williamsasked the Minister of Education the average annual cost of maintaining a boy in a grant-aided residential school.
§ Miss HorsbrughThe cost of boarding at grant-aided secondary schools varies considerably owing to a variety of factors, including the number of boarders accommodated. The approved boarding fees (which are designed to cover the34W cost of boarding), range from £100 to £130 per annum at the majority of secondary schools maintained or assisted by local education authorities. The average cost per pupil of all ages for tuition in such schools is about £59. These figures do not apply to residential special schools maintained by local education authorities for handicapped pupils, where there is a wide variation in cost owing to the very great diversity of conditions which necessarily obtain in schools catering for different types of handicap.