HC Deb 10 February 1899 vol 66 cc678-9
MR. CHANNING

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, whether, in reply to an application from the parents of 40 children at Levenshulme, near Manchester, to have free places for these children, the Education Department has directed the parents to send their children to the Roman Catholic school, although these parents were Protestants; whether, in the case of the Board schools at Barrowford, some time ago, the Department informed the School Board that Roman Catholic parents were not to send their children for free places at the Board school, bcause it was not suitable for them; and, whether he will state to the House what are the regulations of the Department which justify this different treatment of Protestant and Roman Catholic children?

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

The answers to paragraphs (1) and (2) are in the negative. There are no such regulations as those asked for in the third paragraph.

MR. CHANNING

I shall put a further Question on this.