§ MR. KNOXI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, inasmuch as the greater part of the results fees paid by the Intermediate Education Board in Ireland are derived from the Customs and Excise grant, and as the grants made by County Councils in England in aid of technical education are derived from the same source, he can explain on what ground the one is considered by the Science and Art Department to be an endowment, and the other is not; and whether he will direct the Department to give equal treatment in this matter to the English and Irish schools?
§ * MR. HANBURY (on behalf of Sir J. GORST)The Department have been acting on the decision given by the Public Accounts Committee in 1890, that results fees paid by the Intermediate Education Board out of their original endowment fund should be treated as endowment. I do not know if the Board can say how much, if any, of the fees paid by them is derived from the Customs and Excise grant, and not from the endowment fund, but I will communicate with them on the subject.