§ Mr. LEES SMITHasked the Home Secretary if, in view of the fact that reformatory schools are schools rather than prisons, he will make it a reference to the departmental committee upon the subject to consider whether they should be transferred from the Home Office to the Board of Education?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. Churchill)I think there are strong reasons against dividing between two Government Departments the work and responsibility now laid upon the Home Office for children and youths who are criminal or in danger of falling into crime, and the Committee of 1895 refused to recommend the transfer of these schools. But I will not exclude the point from the consideration of the present Committee.
§ Mr. LEES SMITHIn order that the question should be discussed from the point of view of the Board of Education as well as the Home Office, will any representative of the Board of Education be on the Committee?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI have been considering that point.