MR. MACINTOSH (Inverness-shire)I beg, on behalf of my hon. Friend (Dr. Cameron) to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether resolutions or memorials praying for the re-insertion in the Scottish Education Code for 1889, of the provisions of the Code of 1887, have been adopted by the School Boards of Glasgow, Govan, Dundee, Cupar, New Monkland, Airdrie, Helensburgh, Stranraer, Campbeltown, and other places in Scotland; and whether, having regard to that expression of opinion, it is still intended to insert in the Scottish Code for 1889 the altered conditions as to grants for cookery embodied in the Scottish Code for 1888, but suspended in compliance with an undertaking given by him on the 19th of April last?
§ *THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH,) Strand, WestminsterThe Lord President and the Secretary for Scotland have fully considered all the representations that have been made on this subject. The Scotch Code was laid on the Table some days ago, and has now been distributed; it does not contain the altered conditions as to grants for cookery, which were inserted in the Code of 1888, and to which the hon. Member refers.
§ MR. BUCHANANI wish to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he was aware that the Lord President of the Council received a deputation a fortnight ago from representatives of the Edinburgh School Board and the chief cookery schools of Scotland and England, urging, on the ground both of efficiency and economy, the insertion of 1247 the original provision of last year's Code, as regards cookery grants, in opposition to the view suggested by the question of the hon. Member for the College Division?
§ *MR. W. H. SMITHThe views submitted to the Lord President and the Secretary for Scotland by the deputation referred to were fully considered by the Scotch Education Department in connection with other representations on the subject; but, after full deliberation, it was not thought expedient at present to make the change in the cookery grant which was suggested.