§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil)To ask the Secretary to the Board of 678 Education whether the scheme passed by the Newport County Council on 14th April, and afterwards submitted to this Department, was passed by an absolute majority of the whole Council; and whether, seeing that the scheme of 14th April was, in principle, the same as that of 13th February, but modified in detail to comply with the suggestions made by the Board of Education to the Council, he will state the specific object of the inquiry proposed to be held under Section 22 (10) of the Act of 1902.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) The scheme submitted to the Board on the 13th of March was of a wholly different character to the schemes referred to by the hon. Member. As I stated on the 7th May, † there is evidently a wide difference of opinion in the borough as to the composition of the Committee, and the object of the inquiry will be to ascertain whether a scheme cannot be framed which would satisfy both parties that the educational purposes in which they were interested would receive fair treatment and full consideration at the hands of the local education authority.