§ Sir HILDRED CARLILEasked the President of the Board of Education on what grounds the Permanent Advisory Committee on Grants-in-Aid to Universities and Colleges was dissolved in 1911, after five years' existence; and in what respects the present duties of the Advisory Committee of the Board of Education, which took its place, differ from those of the body it superseded?
Mr. PEASEIn order that all Exchequer Grants available in aid of the work of universities and university institutions, other than Grants-in-Aid of agriculture, might be brought under the cognisance of one Department, the old Treasury Committees were dissolved and a new Committee appointed by the President of the Board of Education. It is, therefore, the duty of the present Committee to take into account not only the Treasury Grants but also the Grants made by the Board of Education to university institutions.