§ MR. HUMPHREYS-OWEN () MontgomeryshireI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether schools established by scheme under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act will be considered as provided or only as aided by the local education authority.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL (Sir ROBERT FINLAY, Inverness Burghs)Such schools are not provided schools.
§ MR. HUMPHREYS-OWENThen will the Education Bill, when passed, override the provisions if these schools were established?
§ SIR ROBERT FINLAYNot in itself.
§ MR. HUMPHREYS-OWENSuppose the Bill to be inconsistent with the scheme, which would prevail?
§ SIR ROBERT FINLAYI understand the hon. Member's Question to be whether these schools will be provided or aided. My reply is, that they will not be provided schools under the Bill.
§ MR HUMPHREYS-OWENI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether, in the event of the passing of the Education Bill in its present form, it will be in the power of the local education authority in the counties of Wales and Monmouthshire to withdraw wholly or partly the Exchequer contribution from schools established by scheme under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, and to apply the moneys so withdrawn to the aiding of other secondary schools.
§ SIR ROBERT FINLAYwas understood to reply that for this purpose an Amendment of the Bill would be required, and he proposed to put one on the Paper.