HC Deb 04 May 1899 vol 70 c1308
MR. ELLIS GRIFFITH

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he will supply a copy of the last annual Report of the inspector, the schedules of grants, and the annual cash statement of the, public elementary school at Wymington, Bedfordshire; and whether, in view of the frequent inconvenience caused by the time for the inspection of voluntary school accounts being now limited to six months in the year, he will so amend Article 89 of the Code as to restore the right of 12 months inspection, which was the law when he took office?

SIR J. GORST

I shall be happy to supply the honourable Gentleman with the particulars referred to, but the Committee of Council are of opinion that the period fixed ill Article 89 of the Code is sufficient in ordinary cases, and they are not aware that frequent inconvenience has been caused by the alteration made in 1896.