§ 40. Mr. HOAREasked the President of the Board of Education whether he intends to proceed with the Education (No. 2) Bill in the event of there being any strong opposition to its proposals?
Mr. PEASEThere has been nothing to indicate that there is any widespread opposition to the Bill, and I, therefore, hope there may be no difficulty in passing it this Session.
Mr. PEASEThere are ways of doing it, but the way the Government has suggested, is the one which they recommend, and they think it is very important that it should be done in that form.
§ Mr. HOAREDoes the right hon. Gentleman want to do under a Bill what his predecessor, the present Home Secretary, did without a Bill?
§ Mr. KINGDoes the right hon. Gentleman remember that he told me a few days ago that he could not give this building Grant without legislation?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANAre we to understand that the Grant given before, by the predecessor of the right hon. Gentleman under the Appropriation Bill by Supplementary Estimate, was wrong?
Mr. PEASEI think that that is really a subject matter of Debate. There was criticism made in regard to the other and I thought that the House on this occasion would prefer the way which I suggest.
§ Mr. HOAREDoes the right hon. Gentleman mean that he cannot give this building Grant without a Bill?
Mr. PEASEI have already indicated that I cannot give relief to local education authorities in connection with elementary schools, except the matter is regularised in the way we suggest.