§ SIR W. J. COLLINS (St. Pancras, W.)I beg to ask the Prime Minister if he will now state the decision he has arrived at as the result of the representations made to him on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1507 regard to the possible effects upon their medical school of the passing into law of the Irish Universities Bill.
§ MR. ASQUITHIt is proposed that there shall be in the Charter of the new University no clause restricting the Senate from giving full recognition, if it is deemed fit, to the work done in the Royal College of Surgeons. I believe that in these circumstances the Royal College of Surgeons will find no difficulty in future in continuing the work that it has done so effectively in the past; but, if in the working of the new system it should prove that the Royal College of Surgeons has suffered injury, I hope (without giving any pledge) that the Treasury may be found not indisposed to consider favourably an application for putting the college in a position to continue its work.