§ VISCOUNT CRANBORNEI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council (1) whether he is aware that there is a rumour that no payment will be made under the Voluntary Schools Act until February 1898; and (2) whether he will give an assurance that there shall be no delay, so far as the Department is concerned, in settling the schemes, and in paving the money accordingly?
§ MR. HANBURY (for Sir JOHN GORST)My right hon. Friend asks me to say that the answer to the first paragraph is in the negative; to the second, in the affirmative.