§ MR. PERKS (Lincolnshire, S.)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education will he explain why the School Board of Beckenham (Nottinghamshire), which has maintained an efficient school fur the education of the parish in temporary premises since April, 1898, has not yet received a grant; and what are the objections to the school being at once admitted to the annual grant list, and a grant to the school being paid from the time of the opening of the school by the Board.
THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. CORST,) Cambs. UniversityThe school has not yet received a grant because the old National School premises, in which it is conducted, and which were erected with the aid of a building grant, have not been transferred to the Board under Section 23 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. The Board now proposes to erect an entirely new school, and meanwhile to occupy temporary premises which the Department has conditionally agreed to sanction. On hearing that the Board accept these conditions the Department will be prepared to consider a claim to annual grant as from the date of the Board's first occupation of the National School premises.