§ *SIR FRANCIS POWELL (Wigan)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether any change has been made in the plans for the Victoria and Albert Museum which will increase the accommodation for the teaching of art to the prejudice of the arrangements for the purposes of the exhibition of the collections.
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Sir WILLIAM ANSON,) Oxford UniversityA change was made in 1900 in the original plans for the Victoria and Albert Museum. The result of this change would be to increase the accommodation for the Royal College of Art, and might be regarded as prejudicial to the exhibition of the collections. I am in communication with the Office of Works on the subject.