HC Deb 02 August 1897 vol 52 cc83-4
VISCOUNT CRANBORNE (Rochester)

I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether an enlargement of the Earls Heaton School, to the extent of 60 places, is being sanctioned by the Education Department, notwithstanding the protest of three members of the Soothill School Board, in whose district the said school is situated, who have represented that within 150 yards of the said school there are over 200 vacant places provided by another public elementary school; and, whether, if this is the case, he will consider the matter?

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

The provision of a third class-room is desirable in the interests of the efficiency of the Board School; but, as it appears that there are still a good many vacant places in the National School, the Committee of Council will consider whether they shall reckon this class-room as increasing the accommodation of the Board School to the extent proposed.