asked the Home Secretary the total amounts of Excise penalties recovered from the public and credited, respectively, to county and borough councils and to police superannuation funds; and whether he will, in view of recent changes in the financial relations between local authorities and the Treasury, review the practice of linking police duties with police pensions?

Police superannuation funds ceased to exist as separate funds in 1921, and I know of no existing financial arrangement which could be described as a link betwen police duties and police pensions. I am unable to say what sums may be credited to county and borough councils by way of Excise penalties.

asked the Home Secretary whether the advice of his Department was sought by the Commonwealth Government of Australia with regard to prohibiting the entry of Egon Kisch, who desired to attend an anti-War congress in that Dominion; if so, the grounds for giving such advice; whether Kisch has been refused entry into this country; and if so, the reasons?

The question whether any particular person may be admitted to Australia is one solely for the Australian authorities to determine, and no question of advice by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom arises. As regards the last part of the question, the person referred to was refused leave to land in the United Kingdom in September, 1933, on account of his known subversive activities.

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether in the last three years sanction has been given by the Board for the erection of any new provided schools which when completed would make full provision for the local child population, including such children for whom it might have been expected provision would be made by the erection of a non-provided school?

My Noble Friend presumes that the hon. Member refers to cases in which proposals for the provision of additional school accommodation in a particular area have been made by a voluntary body as well as by the local education authority, and the Board have been called upon to decide whether either or both of the proposals should be allowed. During the last three years the Board have in one such case, on grounds of economy and educational efficiency, disallowed the proposal of the voluntary body and allowed the proposal of the local education authority.