§ MR. CALDWELL (Glasgow, St. Rollox)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Treasury are aware that the school fees collected at Lenzie Board School for the year 1887–8 were £930, and for the year 1888–9 were £900, whilst the average attendance was only about 200, being an average of £4 10s. per pupil per annum, not counting holidays; whether the Treasury are aware that the school fees charged in Class IV. of this school are £3 per pupil per annum, and so prohibitory to the working-classes in Lenzie district; whether Lenzie Board School is on the list of State-aided schools in receipt of Government Grant, how, and in what manner, have the accounts of this school been presented to the Comptroller and Auditor General, so that it has escaped his observation that the school is on the list of State-aided schools, in violation of the 9d. per week limit of the Act of 1870, and what steps the Treasury propose taking in the matter?
§ * THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON, Leeds, N.)Perhaps I may be permitted to reply. The Treasury has no information on the points raised; and unless the Controller and Auditor General, who has all the facts before him, should move in the matter, I do not see how action by the Treasury can arise