MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthenshire, W.)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that no Government grant has been paid in respect of the elementary school at Mydrim, Carmarthenshire, since last May, and that the school is only kept 563 open by the teachers on their own responsibility; and whether he will state what steps should be taken in order to secure the annual Government grant.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) As the hon. Member is doubtless aware, the managers of the Mydrim School declared that they were unable to continue the school after 30th May last, and it was accordingly removed from the Annual Grant List. The Board understand that since that date the school has been conducted as a private adventure school by the headmaster. The trustees, or any other responsible body of managers, are at liberty to re-open the school as a public elementary school, and to make applications for its being again placed on the Annual Grant List. But the conditions of the Code as sanctioned by Parliament make it impossible for the Board of Education to pay grants in respect of a school carried on as a private adventure school.