ABSTRACT
Prime Minister, Lloyd George, in August 1921 to advise on Government economies in the coming year. By the end of the year, the Committee, chaired by Sir Eric Geddes, a former Minister of Transport, had drawn up a report. The most controversial proposals, for education savings, the lowering of teachers’ salaries and the exclusion of children under six from elementary schools, were rejected by the Cabinet. Part of the £6.5 million reduction in education estimates was achieved by teachers contributing five per cent of their salary towards superannuation and by increasing the size of elementary school classes to 50.
