§ MR. CLOUGH (Yorkshire, W.R., Skipton)I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, following the precedents of the Old-Age Pension Act and Budget, 1908 he can see his way to deal by a separate Bill to the Budget in 1909 with the £13,500,000 allocated to elementary education, so as to constitute the teachers of the elementary schools a branch of the Civil Service free from the imposition of all ecclesiastical tests, and so as to provide that the whole of those moneys shall only be expended upon those elementary schools that are completely controlled by popularly elected education authorities.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEMy hon. friend's Question should be addressed to the Prime Minister.