HC Deb 27 February 1899 vol 67 cc621-2
MR. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will take steps to enable several hundred children of St. James End, Northamptonshire, to fulfil their legal obligations in respect of the Education Acts, which they are now precluded from doing by the action of the managers of the only school in the place?

SIR J. GORST

There is nothing to prevent the children, to whom the honourable Member is understood to refer, from fulfilling their legal obligation to attend school, but they are expected to conform to rules, which have been laid down by the managers for the order and discipline of the school, and are approved by the Committee of Council.

MR. LABOUCHERE

In consequence of the answer I have received, I shall, on a very early opportunity, call the attention of the House to it.