§ MR. SPICER (Monmouth Boroughs)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education how many reformatories and industrial schools under the Home Office receive grants from the Science and Art Department; under what inspection the grants are now given, and how frequently such inspection is made; and whether he would consider the advisability of increasing the number of such grants?
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityFifty in England, and six in Scotland; heretofore under inspection of the Science and Art Department, hereafter under that of the Home Office and Scotch Office. It is for the last-named Departments to consider the propriety of increasing such grants.