§ MR. MENDL (Plymouth)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he is aware that the teacher of an elementary school at Ashton-under-Lyne recently attempted, by means of pressure and persuasion, to deprive the parents of children attending the school of the rights conferred on them by Memorandum 3 of the Education Department, 1893; and whether he will direct inquiries to be made into the facts of the case, with the view of enforcing the law?
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Committee of Council have received no information on the subject, but I will have inquiries made.