§ MR. STEPHENS (Middlesex, Hornsey)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, as the Government proposal for assisted education would have the effect of rendering the correspondents of Voluntary Schools more independent of local financial support for such schools, and in consequence diminish local influence in their management, he will provide means to secure that the Annual Return to the Department will be signed by persons regularly associated with the correspondent in the responsible management of the school?
§ SIR W. HART DYKEI shall be glad to consider any proposal which has for its object to render those nominally responsible, more closely interested in the management of schools; and I will see whether the regulations in the Code cannot be amended in this respect.