§ MR. A. J. MUNDELLA (Sheffield, Brightside)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education if he would explain to the House what is meant in the Report of the Committee on the distribution of Science and Art grants by the possession in counties and county boroughs of an organisation for the promotion of secondary education; whether technical instruction committees, or School Boards (having organised Science Schools or Science and Art Classes) are to be understood as being amongst such organisations, and as constituting an authority responsible for Science and Art instruction within its area: and what will be the organisation in districts where both such authorities are or many be in operation?
§ *SIR. J. GORSTThe term "organisation for the promotion of secondary education" appears to allude to bodies established by law in Welsh counties and to voluntary combinations of public bodies to prevent overlapping which exist in some, and are desirable in all, English counties. Technical instruction committees and School Boards would come within the category if they were generally accepted as the medium for the dispensation of the Science and Art grants. In districts where no voluntary combination is made, and where rival authorities are in operation, the proposals of the Departmental Committee for preventing overlapping cannot be carried into effect without legislation.