§ MR. LANE-FOX (Yorkshire, W.R., Barkston Ash)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether on 11th April last, the West Riding Education Committee suggested to the Board that the Garforth Church School should be confined to junior and infant children; whether on 2nd June the Board wrote stating that they could see no adequate reason for such reorganisation; whether on 20th June the Board reiterated their decision; whether on 10th July the Board reversed this decision; 817 and, if so, what fresh material came before the notice of the Board to cause them so to reverse their decision.
§ MR. McKENNAThe Answer to the first four Questions is in the affirmative. With regard to the fifth, consideration was not given in the earlier decision of 3rd June to the fact that the size of the premises necessitated that a certain number of children must, in any case, be excluded and that the school organisation of the district would be facilitated if the higher classes were transferred. On my attention being drawn to this aspect of the case I had no hesitation in giving the decision of 12th July.