§ MR. CALDWELL (Lanark, Mid)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education if he can state approximately the amount by which the Education Estimates for the years ending 31st March 1898 and 1899 were increased owing to the repeal, by Section 2 of The Voluntary Schools Act 1897, of the 17s. 6d. limit.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe Estimates for the former year where framed before the repeal of the 17s. 6d. limit; and it is impossible to say how much of the rise in the Estimates for the latter year was due to the repeal. It seems probable that the amount of the deduction in each of the two years, if the limit had remained in force, would have been between £60,000 and £70,000.