HC Deb 16 June 1896 vol 41 cc1157-8
MR. CARVELL WILLIAMS (Notts, Mansfield)

I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, (1) will he explain on what grounds the Department has replied to the parents (Nonconformists) of 193 children in the borough of Heywood, who memoralised them for free places in a public elementary school, that there are at present 295 free places available in the district in which such children reside, and that there is therefore a sufficient supply of free school accommodation; (2) whether he is aware that 172 of such free places are in a Church of England school, and 100 in a Roman Catholic school; and, (3) whether the Department has decided that the accommodation in such schools is suitable for the children of Nonconformists?

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir JOHN GORST,) Cambridge University

The facts are correctly stated both in the question and in the official reply to the memorial. The answer to the last paragraph is in the affirmative.