§ MR. GRENFELL (Buckinghamshire, Wycombe)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 School Board for London has submitted a syllabus of instruction in swimming and life-saving to the Board of Education for approval, that this syllabus included practical instruction in the water in both subjects, and that the Board have replied that they will only recognise practice on land; and whether, in view of the fact that many British lives are lost at home and abroad owing to ignorance of swimming and life-saving, the Board of Education will reconsider their decision to exclude practical instruction in swimming and life-saving from the list of recognised subjects for grant.
§ SIR JOHN GORSTThe matter referred to in the Question has been fully considered, but the Board of Education have no present intention of altering the regulations for elementary schools recently laid before Parliament.