§ MR. MATHER (Lancashire, S.E. Gorton)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, in giving a general approval to the principle of a National Pension Scheme for teachers in Public parliamentary Schools, he contemplates the existence of an independent scheme for teachers under the London School Board; and, if so, whether he would regard the London scheme as competitive with or supplemental to the National scheme?
§ MR. ACLANDIn giving a general approval to the principle of a National Pension Scheme for teachers in Public Elementary Schools, the Government had not in contemplation any independent partial schemes for teachers under individual School Boards, especially as the Select Committee of the House, appointed in 1891 to examine this question in connection with the Bill promoted by the School Board for London, recommended that that Bill should not be proceeded with.