§ MR. BUCKNILL (Surrey, Epsom)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the fee-grant, in the case of many voluntary schools, was, up to April, 1893, paid quarterly, on or before the 1st day of January, April, July, and October; whether, in the case of some schools, a new practice has been introduced, whereby the grant expected on the 30th June, 1893, has been deferred until the payment of the Government grant in August, throwing thereby such schools into arrears of fee-grant and causing a loss of resource for one quarter of a year; and whether he will take the matter into his consideration?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. ACLAND,) York, W.R., RotherhamThere has been no change in the practice with regard to the time of payment of the fee-grant since the fee-grant was instituted, and, therefore, none under the present Government. The practice is, and always has been, that three quarterly instalments are paid on fixed days, and the balance together with the annual grant.