§ MR. JAMES ROWLANDS (Finsbury, E.)I bog to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether be has yet received from the London School Board a Report of the free school accommodation in Pimlico, which he asked for in March last on receiving a Memorial from 600 persons in Pimlico asking for free school places?
§ MR. ACLANDThis Petition was transmitted to the School Board for London on the 11th of March. Notwithstanding pressing letters from the Department on the 18th of April and the 15th of May, the Board have hitherto failed to supply the information asked for with regard to it. I have therefore been obliged to recall the Petition from the Board's hands in order that Her Majesty's Inspector may make the necessary investigation himself; and the Board have been informed that this course will be adopted in future with regard to similar representations. I am bound to express my regret that the London School Board has treated the matter in this way.