HC Deb 25 July 1907 vol 179 cc143-4
SIR HENRY CRAIK (Glasgow and Aberdeen University)

I beg to ask the † See (4) Debates, clxxvi., 902. President of the Board of Education whether the special grant of £100,000 for building elementary schools will be subject to the rule imposed by Section 97 of the Education Act of 1870, upon the only Parliamentary grant permissible under that Act, under which rule the conditions for obtaining such grant are to be contained in a Minute of the Board, which is not to be in force until it has lain for not less than one month upon the Table of both Houses of Parliament.

THE PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Lough, Islington, W.)

No, Sir; the conditions referred to apply to the annual Parliamentary grant. The special grant is not such a grant.