§ MR. WILLIAM SIDEBOTTOM (Derbyshire High Peak)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, why the Education Department, after having intimated to the Buxton School Board that it had the first right to provide any additional accommodation which the Department required, and after having received places of such additional required accommodation from the Board, has, before communicating the views of the Department on these places, placed a Roman Catholic School at Buxton on the list for the Government grant; and, what is the ground for such treatment of one denominational school, there being no other denominational school in Buxton receiving State aid?
§ SIR JOHN GORSTFurther school accommodation in Buxton was required, and there was a Roman Catholic School established in 1888, having 73 scholars on the books, and an average attendance of 46. The Education Department has accordingly determined that such a school is not unnecessary under Article 80 of the Code.