§ SIR CHARLES PALMER (Durham, Jarrow)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether any instructions have been given to Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools to withhold grants from voluntary schools unless the managers made certain extensions of the school buildings, although these buildings satisfied the requirements of Her Majesty's Inspectors in 1885 and 1886, and there has been no increase in the average attendance since that time?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)No, Sir; no such instructions as are indicated in the Question have been issued. If the hon. Baronet will give me particulars of any special case I will make inquiries, it being important to secure uniformity in dealing with these questions.