MR. CARVELL WILLIAMS (Notts, Mansfield)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether a School Board, provided under Section 6 of the Education Bill, will be a Voluntary School or a school provided by a School Board; whether a Board School, when transferred under Section 8 (1) to the Education Authority, will still be regarded as a school provided by a School Board, or will, for any of the purposes of the Act, be a Voluntary School; and, whether a school transferred under Section 8 (2) to the Education Authority will be regarded as a school provided by a School Board, or will, for any of the purposes of the Act, be a Voluntary School?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Sir JOHN GORST,) Cambridge UniversityAll the schools referred to in the Question would be regarded as schools provided by a School Board.
§ * MR. HENRY J. WILSON (York, W. R., Holmfirth)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether all public Elementary Schools maintained by the Education Authority will be subject to the obligations of Section 14 of the Education Act of 1870?
§ SIR JOHN GORSTYes, Sir.
§ * MR. HENRY J. WILSONI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether the special aid grant of 4s. under Section 4 will be paid to any school maintained by an Education Authority under the powers conferred on it to act as a School Board, or as the successor to a School Board?
§ SIR JOHN GORSTNo, Sir. [Laughter.]
§ MR. E. FLOWER, (Bradford, W.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, what will be the effect of the Education Bill upon the position of the present inspectors of Schools and of the sub-inspectors of both classes as Civil Servants of the Crown.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Education Bill would have no effect upon the position of the inspectors and sub-inspectors of schools as Civil Servants of the Crown.
§ MR. F. A. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, what is the number of School Boards entitled to the additional grant under Section 97 of the Act of 1870, and to the special aid grant under the Education Bill which have not claimed the additional grant under Section 97 of the Act of 1870 during the past two years.
§ SIR J. GORSTThere are 260 of such schools.