§ Mr. Wallasked the Minister of Education what he estimates to be the annual cost to the Church of England and Roman Catholic communities of maintaining their denominational schools.
§ Mr. Geoffrey LloydI estimate the present annual cost to voluntary bodies of the provision, alteration and repair of aided and special agreement schools to be:
£ Church of England schools … 850,000 Roman Catholic schools … 1,900,000 These estimates include the cost of work on buildings designed to replace existing schools, i.e., for transferred and substituted schools and schools for displaced pupils. They exclude the cost of work designed to increase the total number of denominational school places. They represent the net cost to voluntary bodies, after taking into account my grants and the cost of work borne by local education authorities.