Oral Answers to Questions — Education. – in the House of Commons am ar 15 Mehefin 1933.
Sir Geoffrey Mander
, Wolverhampton East
asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education if he can state, as on the latest convenient date, the number of children remaining in elementary schools after the term in which they reach the age of 14?
Mr Herwald Ramsbotham
, Lancaster
My Noble Friend regrets that information is not available in the precise form asked for in the question; but the number of children aged 14 years 3 months and over remaining in public elementary schools in England and Wales, on the 31st March, 1932, was 53,409.
