§ MR. LEVY (Leicestershire, Loughborough)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that the draft education scheme framed by the Committee of the Leicestershire County Council was informally submitted to the Board of Education without the 666 authority of either the Committee or the Council, and before it had been submitted to the Council for consideration; and that, in consequence of objections raised by the Board of Education to the draft scheme, it was withdrawn and another scheme prepared for presentation to the Council; and if he will state in what particulars the scheme originally prepared was not in accordance with the requirements of the Education Act; and on what grounds the objections of the Board of Education were based.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) I have nothing to add to my answer of the 20th instant except that an Education Scheme was submitted to the Board of Education by the County Council of Leicestershire on the afternoon of that day. In my judgment no useful purpose can be served by stating in answer to Questions in this House the purport or details of the various discussions or communications, sometimes extending over some time, which take place between the Board and local authorities, or members and representatives of those authorities, while a, scheme is in course of preparation or while it is being settled for publication.