§ MR. HARRY POLLOCK (Lincoln, Spalding)I beg to ask the hon. Member for the Thirsk Division, as representing the Charity Commissioners—(1) whether, as the result of the Amendment carried in this House to the Donington Education scheme, the new trustees (appointed under that part of the scheme which was not rejected) will in due course come into office; (2) whether it will be competent for a majority of such trustees to apply for a new scheme; and (3) whether it will be competent for the trustees and the Charity Commissioners in that event to provide under such new scheme that the grammar school, which has been in existence for 170 years, shall not be destroyed, and also to provide that the funds bequeathed under the will of John Cowley for the endowment of the said school may be prudently expended in the interests of education at Donington?
MR. GRANT LAWSON (York, N.R., Thirsk)The answer to the first two paragraphs of my hon. Friend's question is in the affirmative. To the third paragraph the answer is that it will be competent for the Charity Commissioners, acting, as usual, after consultation with the trustees to make a new scheme, either resuscitating the grammar school, or prudently expending in other ways the endowments in the interests of education at Donington.