§ MR. LANE-FOX (Yorkshire, W.R., Barkston Ash)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether he has sanctioned any grant from the £100,000 allotted for the provision of provided schools in single-school areas for a new school at Kirkburton; and whether he is aware that the three existing schools at Kirkburton have been scheduled as unsatisfactory by the local education authority for some time previous to their application for assistance from this grant.
§ MR. MCKENNANo, Sir. No grant has yet been sanctioned. I understand 781 that the managers of the three existing schools have been required by the local education authority to execute certain improvements, which have not yet been carried out, and that the schools have therefore been scheduled by the authority as unsatisfactory.
§ *MR. H. J. WILSON (Yorkshire, W.R., Holmfirth)Has the right hon. Gentleman received a numerously signed memorial from parents asking for a provided school?
§ MR McKENNAYes, Sir. I am now considering it.
§ MR. LANE-FOXI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether the trustees of the existing Church school at Kirkburton have offered to build a school free of cost to the ratepayers, and to provide therein full facilities for Nonconformist religious teaching; and whether, under the circumstances, he will sanction the building of a new council school.
§ MR. MCKENNAThere is a proposal before the Board on behalf of the trustees of the Kirkburton Church Schools to provide a new school with facilities for religious instruction of an undenominational character. As I stated on the 18th February, the questions involved are extremely complicated and the matter is still under consideration. I am not yet in a position to say whether the provision of a new council school will be sanctioned.