MR. STANLEY WILSON (Yorkshire, E. R., Holderness)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Education Department hold that it 968 is no part of the duty of their consulting architect to grant interviews to persons submitting plans for the approval of the Department, and whether he will arrange that, in future, interviews shall be granted when required to any person or public bodies submitting plans to the department, in order to facilitate the approval of the plans and the erection of schools in accordance therewith.
§ SIR J. GORSTThe arrangement is that persons submitting plans see one of the assistant secretaries, who calls in the architect if his advice is required.