§ 86. Mr. Malcolm MacPhersonasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in view of the fact that recurrent expenditure per head of school population for European primary education in Kenya greatly exceeds that for African primary education, he will recommend to the Government of Kenya that the amounts allocated to African primary education should be increased.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydNo. The Kenya Government has to its credit the remarkable feat of increasing the African primary school population from 344,538 in 1955 to 440,918 in 1957, despite the heavy burden of the Emergency and the shortage of capital finance. This is part140W of a great co-ordinated programme and deserves wider recognition than it has so far had. The limits of expenditure are those set by prudent and skilful management of the Colony's affairs, but even so, 80 per cent. of the boys aged 7 to 11 and 32 per cent. of the girls went to school in 1957.