§ MR. STAVELEY HILL (Staffordshire, Kingswinford)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education if he will shortly lay upon the Table the Memorandum of enactments to be repealed in the schedule of the Education Bill.
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Mr. LOUGH, Islington, W.)I hope the Explanatory Memorandum of the reasons for the repeals will be available in the course of next week. The repeals themselves are fully set out in the second schedule.
§ LORD BALCARRESI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education when he will place upon the Paper his suggested Amendments to Clause 6 of the Education Bill.
§ MR. LOUGHI must refer the noble Lord to the reply given to an identical Question from the Member for Cambridge University, which was circulated with the Votes this morning.† I have nothing to add to that Answer.
§ LORD R. CECILWhen will the Amendments to Clause 2 be available?
§ SIR E. CARSON (Dublin University)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether, in the event of
† See Col. 919.1148 schools being transferred without rent, to which Clause 4 of the Education Bill applies, the local education authority or the owners will be liable for mortgages or other charges upon such schools.
§ MR. LOUGHIn the cases referred to in the Question, the liability in question will not be upon the local authority.
§ MR. HICKS BEACH (Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education if he can state the number of children that are withdrawn from religious instruction in denominational schools, and the percentage that number bears to the children that are taught in those schools.
§ MR. HICKS BEACHDo not the county councils issue such a Return?