HC Deb 23 July 1901 vol 97 cc1336-7
DR. MACNAMARA (Camberwell, N.)

I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether it is intended to offer Whitehall grants to night schools conducted by other bodies than school boards without the securities of the Elementary Education Acts of 1870 and of 1876, and of the Regulations of the Education Department in the past as to the observance of a Conscience Clause, the audit of expenditures, the publication of accounts, and the operation of the seventeen and six-penny limit.

THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST, Cambridge University)

Grants will be paid by the Board of Education to all evening schools which fulfil the conditions of the minute of July 3rd.

DR. MACNAMARA

Does the right hon. Gentleman hold that the seventeen-and-sixpenny limit can be repealed without legislation?

SIR J. GORST

I must ask for notice of that.