§ MR. WELBYasked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether any schemes for diverting Endowments given for the education of the poor to "the promotion of education of a kind higher than that now provided by Law," have been submitted by the Endowed Schools Commissioners to the Committee of Council; whether the Committee of Council have approved of any such schemes; and, whether there is anything in the Endowed 622 Schools Act, under which the Commissioners are appointed, which compels them so to divert Endowments?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, in reply, that so far as he could understand the scheme described in the first paragraph of the hon. Member's Question, no such scheme had been sanctioned by the Endowed Schools Commissioners. It was quite possible that the hon. Member might have meant something different from what he (Mr. W. E. Forster) understood; but the possibility of that showed how difficult it was to give any information before the scheme came before the House for sanction or disapproval. If the hon. Member were personally interested in any endowment the Commissioners would be glad to see him, and gather any information he could impart regarding a special case. With reference to the general principle, he could only repeat that no scheme could be carried out till it had been submitted to the House and laid on the Table 40 days. It did not at all follow that, because the secondary education was diverted, as provided for the poor, that therefore educational endowments were also diverted from that class of the community.