§ SIR JAMES RANKIN (Herefordshire, Leominster)I beg to ask the Vice 1328 President of the Committee of Council on Education, in view of the fact that the Education Bill before the House, if passed this session, will modify the object for which the aid grant is applied for under the schemes of the Voluntary Schools Associations, and in order to provide for the possibility of the Education Bill not being passed by the 1st of July, the date at which the schemes must now be sent to the Board of Education, whether the Board would consent to defer the date when the schemes must be sent in until the 1st of September.
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST,) Cambridge UniversityI am informed that the sending in of schemes cannot be postponed beyond the usual time without risk of schools not receiving their grant within the financial year.