§ MR. ERNEST GRAY (West Ham, N.)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the managers of an evening school established and maintained by voluntary school managers or other persons, not being a school board acting as such, will be required to publish their accounts, limit the average fee to 9d. per scholar, and observe the Conscience Clause, or whether these provisions of former codes are abrogated in respect to schools not carried on under the Elementary Education Acts.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe provisions of the Elementary Education Acts do not apply to such schools. But the Board of Education has ample power to secure the keeping of proper accounts and the charging of reasonable fees, and to protect scholars against religious interference.
§ MR. ERNEST GRAYI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether, under the Minute now before Parliament, it is possible for the members of a technical 835 education committee, or the managers of a voluntary day school, or any other body of persons not being a school board acting as such, to institute and maintain evening schools free from any limitation as to age excepting those contained in paragraph 5, and free to give instruction in and receive grants for all the subjects mentioned in the schedule of the aforesaid Minute, assuming that the persons so acting as managers comply with the conditions mentioned in paragraphs 1 to 20 of the Minute.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe answer is in the affirmative.