§ MR. EVERETT (Suffolk, Woodbridge)On behalf of the hon. Member for Middlesbrough, I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been drawn to the Report of Her Majesty's Inspector on the St. James's National School, Craven Terrace, Paddington, for the year ending January, 1894, which states that two of the classrooms are so far below the minimum size 259 required by Rule 7 (a) of the Schedule that they can no longer be recognised as providing accommodation; what is the reduction of accommodation resulting from this intimation; whether the Department have communicated this decision to the London School Board; and, if not, whether they will at once do so; and whether, in all cases where the Department find it necessary to review and reduce the accommodation of a school, they will at once inform the Local Educational Authority of such alteration, in order that their record of the available accommodation of the district may be correct?
§ MR. ACLANDThe two class-rooms in question were each 13 feet by 8, and the nominal accommodation of the school has been reduced by 27 places. It has not, I understand, been the practice hitherto to inform the Local Educational Authority in cases of this kind, but I think it is right that they should be so informed, and I have given directions accordingly.