§ Mr. HOAREasked in how many of the eighty-six Provided Elementary Schools in the county of Cardigan religious instruction is given?
§ The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr. Trevelyan)A Return on the subject of the question, prepared pursuant to an Order of the House of Lords in the year 1906, showed that at that date religious 1250 instruction was given in fifteen out of a total of seventy-five Provided Schools. Since that date seven new Provided Schools have been established, but I have no information as to the number in which religious instruction is given.
§ Mr. HOAREHas the hon. Gentleman's attention been called to the Report of the Director of Education, published in September this year, stating that there were fifty-six schools in the county in which no religious instruction of any kind was given?
§ Mr. TREVELYANI have given the hon. Gentleman all the information I can.