HC Deb 03 August 1894 vol 28 c31
MR. TALBOT (Oxford University)

I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether, considering that he has undertaken to institute an inquiry, either by a Royal Commission or by a Select Committee of this House, into the present system of aggregating large numbers of children into district schools, he will suspend the instructions given to the managers of the West Loudon school district to build another school?

THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. SHAW-LEFEVRE,) Bradford, Central

The school has been overcrowded, and it is for this reason that the Local Government Board have urged that additional accommodation should be provided. The managers proposed to extend the present main school buildings for this purpose; but this the Board declined to assent to, and they have stated that any additional accommodation should be obtained by the erection of a separate school. This separate school may be on the cottage home principle. The Board see no reason to alter the opinion which they have expressed in this matter.