MR. HERBERT (Buckinghamshire, Wycombe)To ask the President of the Board of Education how many petitions have been presented to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council against schemes under the Endowed Schools Acts framed by the Endowed Schools Commissioners, or the Charity Commissioners, or the Board of Education, as their successors: and in how many cases such petitions succeeded in obtaining an alteration of such schemes.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The number of petitions is thirty, of which one was not in order and two were withdrawn. In the remaining twenty-seven cases twenty-one schemes were allowed to proceed and six were remitted. The last petition presented and not withdrawn was dealt with in April, 1894. The last case in which the scheme was remitted was in February, 1890. No scheme framed by the Board of Education in the exercise of their powers under the Endowed Schools Acts, has been the subject of an appeal to the Judicial Committee.