MR. P. O'BRIENOn behalf of the hon. Member for the St. Patrick Division of Dublin I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether it is a fact that, in the Estimates of 1897–8, the elementary schools (manual instruction and drawing were voted £235,900; and whether he can state the amounts that were expended in England, Ireland, and Scotland?
§ MR. HANBURYThe amount voted in the current year for grants for manual instruction and drawing (including certain fees and incidental expenses) is £235,900. The actual expenditure out of that provision is a question rather for the Vice-President of the Committee of Council; but I do not think it would be possible to state the exact expenditure in either country until the close of the financial year.