§ MR. CLOUGHI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education of whom the Board consists; when and by whom they were appointed; the salaries and emoluments attached to the office of each member, apart from the President himself; whether he can state the date of its last meeting; when it is likely to be summoned to another meeting; and whether the Board, as a Board, have the appointment and dismissal of the staff and are responsible for its adequacy and efficiency.
§ MR. MCKENNAThe Board consists of a President, the Lord President of the Council (unless he is appointed President of the Board), His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, and the Chancellor of His Majesty's Exchequer. The Board was appointed in pursuance of Sub-section (2) of Section 1 of the Board of Education Act, 1899. A part from the 797 meagre allowance paid to the President no member of the Board receives any emolument by virtue of his membership. I have no record of any meeting of the Board, and I have no immediate intention of convening one. The Answer to the last paragraph is in the affirmative.
§ MR. CLOUGHIs any ecclesiastical or sectarian test applied to members of this Board?
§ MR. MCKENNANo, Sir.