§ MR. MONTGOMERY (Somersetshire, Bridgwater)To ask the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that under existing regulations affecting religious instruction in council schools. Lady Day, Midsummer Day, Michaelmas Day, Empire Day, Mafeking Day, and the 4th of July, are days in the year on which children, whose parents have expressed a desire to that effect in writing to the head teacher, may attend at a place of worship selected by the parents during the time set apart for religious instruction in the school; and whether the celebration of these days as saints' days is to be henceforth regarded as the particular prerogative of the Established Church.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) I have no official information as to regulations of the kind referred to. If a concrete case is brought to my notice I will cause inquiries to be made.