§ MR. KENYON (Denbigh)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he can state what provision has been made in the Welsh Education Schemes to enable boys and girls, more especially being children of poor parents, to pass from the primary to the new secondary schools, and thence to University Colleges and institutions of higher technical instruction; and how far the Address to Her Majesty, passed in the House of Lords, will affect any such provisions?
§ MR. ACLANDThe usual form of the Welsh County Schemes, under the Intermediate Education Act, provides for a system of county schools throughout the county to meet the wants of its various districts. There is a County Governing Body, through which the whole system is to some extent under central control, and there are Local Governing Bodies. Under the supervision of these bodies, very considerable sums are allotted in the various counties. First, for County Scholarships for scholars from public elementary schools; 2nd, for county bursaries to cover travelling and lodging, or other incidental expenses of poor scholars; 3rd, for the county exhibitions which the boys and girls who do well in the intermediate schools may hold at Universities and University Colleges. In the case of the Cardigan County Scheme, to which, I assume, the hon. Member refers, the Address passed in the House of Lords has swept away the whole of these provisions which are contained in Clauses 48 and 81 to 87, for carrying scholars from elementary and intermediate schools, for giving bursaries to poor scholars, and for taking the most successful scholars from the intermediate schools to University Colleges, and other places of higher instruction.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGE (Carnarvon)I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he received any authoritative demand for this scheme?
§ MR. ACLANDI believe the whole of the provisions which were swept away by the House of Lords had the fullest consent of everybody concerned in the scheme.