§ 20. Mr. HARRISasked the President of the Board of Education whether the Board of Education are consulted when Officers' Training Corps are instituted in connection with schools on the Board's grant list; whether the Board have any information as to the number of Officers' Training Corps or Cadet Corps, respec- 2436 tively, attached to schools on the Board's grant list; whether any instructions have been issued by the Board as to the relations between an Officers' Training Corps or Cadet Corps and the school organisation; and, particularly, whether activities in connection with such bodies should be arranged outside the ordinary school hours?
§ Lord E. PERCYThe answer to the first and third parts of the question is in the negative. As regards the second part, I understand that 69 grant-aided secondery schools in England and Wales have contingents of the Junior Division of the Officers' Training Corps, and 106 have Cadet Corps. As regards the last part, I have no reason to suppose that it is the practice to carry on the work of these corps at times which involve any material interference with the ordinary school instruction.