§ DR. CLARK (Caithness)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate what sum has been paid to the Scottish Education Department, in accordance with the promise of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to make up the difference between the 11/80ths and 10s. per child, from the passing of the Free Education Act till the change of the system.
§ MR. A. G. MURRAYThe sum which the Treasury, on the representation of the Scotch Education Department, agreed to pay in order to make up the difference between 11/80ths of the English grant and 10s. per child, in respect or the years 1892 to 1896, was £23,875. Of this £21,000 was voted in 1898–99, and £2,875 appears in the present year's Estimates.