§ MR. BUTCHER (Cambridge University)To ask the President of the Board of Education whether the report of a discussion set out in Command Paper 4185, of 1908, which took place on the 13th of May between the Secretary to the Board of Education and a deputation representative of educational associations on the subject of a teacher's register was ever submitted before publication to the members of the deputation whoso views are there represented, or, if not, what other steps he has taken to satisfy himself that the report which does not profess to be verbatim accurately expresses the views put forward by the deputation.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The Answer to the first paragraph is in the negative. But the report was compiled from notes taken at the time and was very carefully revised at the hands of three different officials, each of whom was present throughout the discussion, and it is confidently believed that it accurately expresses what passed. The Board have received no intimation or suggestion from any member of the deputation that this is not the case.