§ MR. BENN (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will cause the 95 attention of the Education Department to be directed to the fact that under Section 40, Sub-section 2, of "The Local Government Act, 1888," such portions of the Administrative County of London as formed part of the Counties of Middlesex. Surrey, and Kent, wore severed from those counties, and now form a separate county by the name of the County of London, and to the fact that in their Provisional Orders made this Session under "The Elementary Education Act, 1870," the Parishes of Fulham, St. Mary Islington, St. John Hackney, St. Leonard Shorediteh, St. Matthew Bethnal Green, and All Saints Poplar, in the County of London, are erroneously described as being in the County of Middlesex, the Parishes of Charlton, Plumstead, St. Nicholas Deptford, and Greenwich, in the County of London, are erroneously described as being in the County of Kent, and St. Giles Camberwell and Battersea, in the County of London, are erroneously described as being in the County of Surrey?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND,) York, W.R., RotherhamI recognise that it is very important that these matters should be correctly stated. The descriptions of sites in Provisional Orders made by the Department have always been given in the words of the Schedule to the Petition of the School Board for the granting of the Order. The Department will, however, direct the attention of the School Board for London to the point, and will take further precautions on the matter in future.