SIR UGHTRED KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH (Lancashire, N.E., Clitheroe)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is now in a position to state the course which he will adopt with regard to the representations made on behalf of School Boards as to the prejudicial effects which the Industrial Schools Bill, in its present form, would have upon their powers and duties, and on the education and training of large numbers of neglected children; and whether he has fixed a day for receiving a deputation from School Boards upon this subject? I have also to ask the right hon. Gentleman how soon the Report for 1889 of the Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools in Great Britain, which was laid upon the Table of the House on Monday night, will be in the hands of Members, and whether a copy of it is now accessible in the Library?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. MATTHEWS, Birmingham, E.)I am quite prepared to consider the representations of the School Boards as to the Industrial Schools Bill. No day has been fixed for receiving a deputation. The Report of the Inspector of the Reformatories is not now accessible in the Library, but will be early in the morning of Tuesday next.