§ MR. ALFRED HUTTON (Yorkshire, W.R., Morley)I beg to ask the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education whether the Board of Education can make grants except under the provisions of the Whitehall Code or the South Kensington Directory; and also under what regulations grants are made to children under fifteen years of age for elementary subjects in non-public elementary schools.
§ THE VICE - PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (Sir J. GORST, Cambridge University)The practice of the Board of Education is to make all grants to schools under regulations which are from time to time laid before Parliament; but this practice is prescribed by law only in the case of grants to public elementary schools. No grants are made by the Board of Education to any scholars in any school; but grants are, under a minute of July 6th, 1901, made to evening schools, in some of which there may be some children under fifteen receiving instruction in elementary subjects.
§ MR. ALFRED HUTTONI will put another Question on this subject.