§ MR. FREDERICK CAWLEY (Lancashire, S.E., Prestwich)I beg to ask the Vice-President, of the Committee of Council on Education (1) if he is aware of the want of free accommodation in Moston and Blackley, and that the Manchester School Board had unfavourably replied to applicants for over one thousand places; (2) whether he is aware that St. Mary's School, where applicants for 180 free places are offered accommodation, is inconveniently placed, and over a mile on bad roads from the applicants' homes; (3) whether the large number said to be attending free are only so attending on sufferance, or while in certain classes: and (4) whether, as the schools are for the most part over-crowded in the lower divisions and infants' departments, and the younger children have to travel long distances, he will cause an independent inquiry into the local accommodation to be made?
THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. E. GOEST,) Cambridge UniversityThere is a deficiency of free school accommodation in Moston and Blackley, and two days ago the Education Department received proposals for supplying it from the Manchester School Board. These proposals will be at once referred to the inspector to report if they are sufficient, special regard being had to the points raised by the last three paragraphs of the Question.