§ SIR HENRY KIMBERI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education how the new associations under Clause 3 of the Education Bill are to be constituted; and will the denomination have full power to form an association as it thinks best or will it be compelled as under the Voluntary Schools Act of 1897, to propose a scheme of constitution for the approval of the Board of Education, whose decision shall be final.
§ MR. TREVELYANThe constitution of the association will be determined by the denominations, but will be subject to the approval of the Board of Education.
§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil)Will members of the High, Low, and Broad Church parties be regarded as one denomination or be allowed to have separate associations?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Church of England will have one association.
§ LORD EDMUND TALBOT (Sussex, Chichester)Will there be any appeal against the decision of the Board of Education?
§ MR. TREVELYANI would rather leave that till the clause is under consideration.
§ LORD EDMUND TALBOTBut we are under the guillotine.
§ MR. TREVELYANIf the hon. Gentleman is dissatisfied, I think he might put down a Question to my right hon. friend.
SIR GILBERT PARKERWill time be given by the Government on the later stages of the Bill to define more clearly the position of the associations?
§ MR. TREVELYANThat is a question for discussion when we come to Clause 3.