20. Major McKENZIE WOODasked the Under-Secretary to the Scottish Board of Health whether schemes for the adequate provision of all forms of intermediate and secondary education without payment of fees have been submitted by all education authorities in Scotland to the Scottish Education Department and approved by the Department, as laid down by Section 6 (1) (a) of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918: and, if not, in how many cases the Statute has net been complied with?
§ Captain ELLIOT (Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health, Scotland)In view of the postponement of the operation of Section 14 (1) of the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, the Department have not pressed for final schemes: but every education authority in Scotland has furnished for its district a statement of educational arrangements, which the Department have accepted provisionally as 1053 complying with the requirements of the Act. As previously stated, my Noble Friend will be glad to receive particulars of any case into which the hon. and gallant Member wishes inquiry to be made.
§ Captain ELLIOTIt is being carried out. If my hon. and gallant Friend knows of cases where it is not being carried out, I ask for his co-operation in dealing with them.