§ Mr. GRAYSON (Yorkshire, W. R., Colne Valley)To ask the President of the Board of Education, whether he is aware that the Willesden Education Committee, the London County Council Education Committee, and other education committees forbid the use of rate-provided buildings to Socialists for the purpose of Socialist Sunday Schools; and, if so, whether he is prepared to take steps to amend the Code upon which this restriction is based.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The Code contains no regulations as to the letting of council school buildings outside school hours, and the Board of Education have no jurisdication either to authorise or to prohibit the restriction referred to.