§ MR. CHANNING (Northampton, E.)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education what is the number of Church of England schools, and what are the numbers of any other classes of Voluntary schools, included in the 25 schools from whom the grant under the Voluntary Schools Act has been withheld on the ground that they have unreasonably refused to join an association; and by what tests the Department has determined the question whether the refusals to join associations are or are not unreasonable?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityNineteen of these schools were described as Church of England schools. The other six appear to have been undenominational. The test applied in each case was a consideration of the validity of the objection to join an association which was put forward by the managers of the school.