§ MR. BILL (Staffordshire, Leek)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the Education Department has now received sufficient information, from the various associations of Voluntary schools to enable it to decide whether the distribution of the aid grant to the associations for the current year should be maintained on the same principle as last year, namely, at a rate of 5s. 9d. per scholar in urban schools and 3s. 3d. in rural schools, or whether the great disproportion of the grant will be redressed in favour of rural schools?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityThe allotment to associations has already been made for the current year, at the same rates as before. Sufficient information has not yet been received to enable the Department to decide upon any change.