HC Deb 23 June 1898 vol 59 c1223
MR. TALBOT (Oxford University)

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, seeing that Her Majesty's Inspectors are not permitted to examine the children in elementary schools in religious knowledge, it is possible to make an authoritative comparison between the attainments of scholars in Board and Voluntary schools on such subjects?

THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge University

No official comparison of the relative attainments of the children is possible.

MR. TALBOT

Then why did the Vice-President make such a comparison in his speech on Friday?

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!