§ MR. TOMKINSON (Cheshire, Crewe)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, having regard to the fact that, by a new clause in the Code of Regulations for Day Schools (1901), providing that no attendances made by children under twelve will, after this year, be recognised for the purposes of certain grants, few children can, after this year, receive more than one course of instruction in the important subjects of cookery, laundry work, and household management, instead of three courses, which each individual child can now receive while in the day schools, whether he will take steps to safeguard the existence of training schools of cookery and laundry work, and the interests of the teachers who have already qualified in these subjects.
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST, Cambridge University)The Board of Education will do its best to safeguard the interests of training schools of cookery and laundry work, and of the teachers who have qualified in these subjects, so far as they are consistent with the interest of the children in the public elementary schools.