MR. GEORGE KENYON (Denbigh)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that the clerk to the School Board at Llangollen has stated that, as regards payments of existing liabilities, different treatment is being accorded to the Board schools and to the voluntary schools; and, if so, will he state what steps he proposes to take to prevent such preferential treatment.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) Llangollen is an urban district with a population of some 3,000 in Denbighshire. This county has not as yet submitted a scheme to the Board, so that apparently the Act will not be in operation at Llangollen for some time. It is impossible under these circumstances that any treatment under the Act of 1902, preferential or otherwise, is now being accorded to any sort of schools.