*LORD BALFOURMy Lords, I desire to ask the Lord President of the Council a question of which I have given him private notice. A Minute of the Scottish Education Department relating to secondary education in Scotland was laid on the Table of both Houses of Parliament on May 1. The Minute had, as stated in the last paragraph, to lie on the Table for 30 days, but of this number 14 days have been absorbed by the holidays. During the first 16 days the contents of the Minute had not become very widely known in Scotland, but since that time and during the Recess a great deal of opposition to it has gathered; and the question I wish to ask the noble Lord, without raising any controversy on the subject at the present time, or in any way going into the merits of it, is whether the Government will allow the Minute to lie a few days longer in order that the provisions of the Minute may be fully considered?
THE EARL OF KIMBERLEYI am glad to inform the noble Lord that we are quite ready to allow the Minute to lie on the Table until June 8.
LORD BALFOURThen I shall move on that day that a humble Address be presented to Her Majesty praying that her consent may be withheld from the Minute of the Education Department relating to Scotland, dated the 1st May, 1893.