§ MR. YOXALL (Nottingham, W.)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education if he will state how many applications for recognition of schools, or departments of schools, as higher elementary schools have been made to the Board since the date of the Higher Elementary School Minute; how many schools or departments have been recognised under that minute; in how many cases the applications have been declined by the Board; and, during the same period, how many applications for recognition 482 of schools as organised science schools or schools of science and art have been refused by the Board.
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (SIR J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityI am told that some 190 applications have been made to the Board of Education, but many of these are general and vague and not for the recognition of any specific school. The answer to the second paragraph of the question is, two; to the third paragraph, one; to the fourth paragraph, none.