§ 36. Mr. WOMERSLEYasked the President of the Board of Education if he has received a resolution from the Grimsby and District Chamber of Trade protesting against rate-aided and State-aided departments being used for the purpose of trading in any form whatsoever, and requesting him to issue instructions to all State-aided teaching staffs to cease immediately from any trading with their scholars; and what action he will take?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANI have received a resolution from the Grimsby and District Chamber of Trade in regard to a school tuck shop. The matter is primarily the concern of the local education authorities, and I do not see any reason for action on my part.
§ Mr. BLINDELLWill the right hon. Gentleman make suitable suggestions to the local authorities that this trading in the schools should be stopped permanently?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANNo, I think that the local authorities are the best judges of where the children should get food.
§ Mr. WOMERSLEYIt is not a question of food at all, but of the sale of other things, and, in view of that fact, 590 will the right hon. Gentleman make inquiries into the matter to see if something cannot be done to stop the practice?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANI would suggest to the hon. Member that he should make inquiries as to the schools in his own locality, and probably a good many of his friends would be able to stop it there.