HC Deb 01 March 1888 vol 322 c1847
MR. COBB (Warwick, S.E., Rugby)

asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether the Government intend to carry out the recommendation of the Departmental Commission on Agricultural and Dairy Schools, that a central normal school of agriculture, provided and maintained by the State, should be established in the neighbourhood of Rugby?

THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster)

A sum of £5,000 has been inserted in the Estimate of the Agricultural Department as a grant in aid for giving effect to such of the recommendations of the Departmental Commission on Agricultural and Dairy Schools as may be adopted by the Government. The details are still under discussion, and the above amount is not intended to represent the final amount of the grant.