MR. PRIESTLEY (for Sir J. (BRUN-NER)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether 300 or 400 children have been locked out from the Church of England Day School, St. James End, Northampton, because their parents declined to undertake that they should not wear a medal presented to them for attendance at a separate service held under the Conscience Clause; whether the wearing of such a medal is a reasonable ground within the meaning of the Act of Parliament for refusing admission; and whether he is aware that in 1883, in the case of the Wiveliscombe Board School, in the county of Somerset, 'when admission was refused by the managers to children wearing the temperance blue ribbon, the Department ruled that the wearing of a blue ribbon was not a reasonable ground for refusing admission, and threatened to withdraw the grant unless the excluded children were readmitted?
§ SIR J. GORSTI must ask the honourable Member to postpone this Question till Thursday, as the Committee of Council have sent down an inspector to inquire into the matter. This report is not yet before us.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREIs the inquiry finished?
§ SIR J. GORSTWell, I understand that the Chief Inspector's report was sent in this afternoon.
§ MR. LABOUCHEREThen it is over now.
§ SIR J. GORSTI assume it is from that.