§ MR. SOARESTo ask the hon. Member for Tunbridge, as representing the Charity Commissioners, whether he can state what rights of representation are possessed by 522 the parish council of Combe Martin, in North Devon, with regard to Ley's Charity, Combe Martin.
(Answered by Mr. Griffith Boscawen) This is the case of an endowment now in course of determination by the Commissioners under The Board of Education Act, 1899. Hitherto the parish council have not possessed any right of representation, the charity being in the main a public elementary school and therefore excepted under Section 66 of The Local Government Act, 1894, from the provisions for representations given by Section 14. After determination, any question as to the educational portion, which is the bulk of the endowment, will be for the Board of Education to decide; and as to a very small non-educational portion which will remain under the jurisdiction of the Commissioners, consideration has been postponed until after this decision can be given.