§ MR. HARRY FOSTERI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he has taken any steps to ascertain the number of cases in which payment of the annual grant has been withheld in voluntary schools upon requisitions by the Department as to structural or other alterations of which no previous notice had been given by the Department; and whether he has given instructions, in accordance with the promise recently given by him, that, except for grave cases of emergency, the grant is not in future to be withheld, and an undertaking enforced in any such cases?
§ MR. ACLANDI have not taken any further steps beyond the promise of a Return to the noble Lord the Member for Rochester, on Friday last. As I stated on that day, the grant will not be withheld except in serious cases.
§ MR. HARRY FOSTERThe right hon. Gentleman says "except in serious cases." Does he mean by that cases of insanitation?
§ MR. ACLANDI mean it in a general sense. I referred to this matter in my remarks on Friday.