I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer in view of the fact that a special grant of £100,000 is to be provided for the provision of new elementary schools in England and Wales what amount ho proposes to allocate to Scotland as an equivalent grant.

It would be premature to consider this suggestion until expenditure has taken place out; of the grant in question and the amount of the actual expenditure has been ascertained but I may say at once that the extension of the practice of equivalent grants to the case of services involving a comparatively small expenditure would give rise to serious administrative difficulties and lead to great waste of public money.