§ MR. BLACK (Banffshire)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate how many of the schools which will participate in the grants under heads (a), (b), and (c), respectively, of Section 1 of the Minute of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland, dated 28th May, 1903, are voluntary schools, and how many are public schools.
§ THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND (Mr. SCOTT DICKSON,) Glasgow, BridgetonI may refer the 1313 hon. Member to the answer I gave yesterday to the Member for Northwest Lanark †. In taking the number of schools no distinction was made between public and voluntary schools, and it is impossible without notice to give the numbers separately. Nor would it enable us to say how many public and voluntary schools respectively will qualify for the additional grants during the three months ending on 31st December, 1903.