§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil)To ask the President of the Board of Education whether his statement that the Government is determined, in any arrangement agreed to by them for a settlement of the education question, that passive resistors' grievances must be finally wiped out, is to be taken as meaning that the Government propose that in future no public money derived either from rates or taxes shall be used for denominational teaching in elemental schools.
1375 (Answered by Mr. Runciman.) I must ask my hon. friend to await the publication of the proposals of the Government on the education question.
§ MR. D. A. THOMASTo ask the President of the Board of Education if, in view of the public interest taken in his proposals for a settlement of the education controversy, and the conflicting reports of the tenour of the arguments used by him in his address to Nonconformist Members of this House, he will now publish the official note taken during the delivery of the speech.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) No, Sir. The address referred to was given at a private meeting, and it is not proposed to publish the report.
§ MR. D. A. THOMASTo ask the President of the Board of Education if, in his efforts to arrive at a settlement of the education controversy, he proposes to concede what is known as the right of entry within school hours subject to certain reservations, including a provision that the cost of giving sectarian teaching shall not fall on public funds; and, if so, whether he proposes to include in such cost a due proportion of the expenditure on the school building and of the general maintenance and administrative charges.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) I must ask my hon. friend to await the publication of the proposals of the Government on the education question.