DR. RUTHERFORDI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that there are now on the Statute-book about forty requirements to be fulfilled as a condition of public money being applied in aid of an elementary school, and that most of them are repealed by the Elementary Education (England and Wales) Bill, and nothing put in their place; and, as that Bill is entitled a Bill to regulate the conditions on which public money may be applied in aid of elementary education, will he state the number and terms of the conditions remaining on the Statute-book if the Bill becomes law in its present form.
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Bill now before Parliament provides that no grant 1217 shall be paid in respect of an elementary school other than a public elementary school, unless the conditions specified in Clause 2 are satisfied. I do not think it is possible to state the number and terms of the requirements which must be complied with if a school is to be recognised as a public elementary school.