HC Deb 04 February 1897 vol 45 cc1289-90
MR. J. CARVELL WILLIAMS (Notts, Mansfield)

I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he is aware that the public elementary schools at Wimbledon are overcrowded, the teaching staff insufficient, and the accommodation deficient; that children who cannot be received in the schools have to go to those at Merton and to pay fees, and the children in the Cottenham Park district have to walk a mile and a half; and whether, seeing that a final notice under Section 9 of the Act of 1870 was issued to the school district of Wimbledon calling for the supply of about 740 school places, which notice expired on the 30th November last, will he state what steps the Department has taken since then to give effect to Section 10 of the Act?

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

There is a considerable deficiency of school accommodation in the Wimbledon school district. This is now being supplied with due dispatch.