§ 43. Mr. TOM SMITHasked the President of the Board of Education if he has completed his inquiries with regard to the collapse of the school in course of erection on the Intake site, Doncaster; and, if so, whether he can state the result of the inquiry?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANIn accordance with the answer which I gave to my hon. Friend on the 28th November last, I asked the Doncaster Local Education Authority for a report from an independent expert on the stability of the new structure of the Intake School. The authority have now furnished me with a report by a firm of consulting engineers, who state that the necessary repairs and further strengthening measures have been completed to their satisfaction, and that the stability of the school, so far as the structural sufficiency of the steelwork is concerned, is now entirely beyond question.
§ Colonel HOWARD-BURYIs it not the case that this disaster happened owing to the use of foreign steel?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANNo, Sir; the whole of the steel was British.