asked the President of the Board of Education the estimated number of children aged three to 15 years on the registers of public elementary schools in England and Wales at 31st March, 1930, to 1939?

The estimated numbers of children between the ages of five and 15 on the registers of public elementary schools at 31st March in the years 1930 to 1939 are as follow:

On 31st March, 1930	…	5,353,000
On 31st March, 1931	…	5,342,000
On 31st March, 1932	…	5,771,000
On 31st March, 1933	…	5,769,000
On 31st March, 1934	…	5,772,000
On 31st March, 1935	…	5,662,000
On 31st March, 1936	…	5,487,000
On 31st March, 1937	…	5,335,000
On 31st March, 1938	…	5,241,000
On 31st March, 1939	…	5,170,000

As attendance between the ages of three and five is not compulsory, it would be difficult to form any reliable estimate of the numbers of children between these ages who will be in attendance at the schools.