§ MR. YOXALL () Nottingham, W.I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, in the appointment and proportionate allotment of members of the Consultative Committee, under the Board of Education Act, 1899, due regard will be had to the fact that this Committee is to be concerned with the registration of 60,000 elementary school teachers, and not with the registration of teachers in secondary and higher places of education alone: in what proportion the bodies of teachers in secondary schools and the body of teachers in public elementary schools are to be represented on the Committee; and whether care will be taken to ascertain that the persons to be nominated as representative of the said bodies respectively are likely to be considered suitable for the purpose by the said bodies before the nomination is actually made.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe answer to the first paragraph is in the affirmative. In answer to the second paragraph, I may say that no persons will be placed on the Committee expressly as representatives of the teachers in secondary and elementary schools respectively. The function of the Committee will be to advise the Board on such educational questions as may be referred to them, not to advance the views of any outside body. Every effort will be made to secure the appointment of persons suitable for that purpose.