§ Sir EDWIN CORNWALLasked the President of the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to a letter of Dr. Headlam's relating to King's College; whether the Grant to King's College has been reduced by the Board of Education; and whether the scheme for the extension of the college buildings was dismissed by the Board or by the Advisory Committee after five minutes' study and without any consultation with the college.
Mr. PEASEThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The Grant to King's College was not reduced as suggested, but, on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee the Treasury Grant was increased by £1,650, and the Grants paid by the Board for Technological work were increased by £1,827. The increase in these two Grants together over the Grants in the previous year amounts to over 38 per cent. I understand that Sir William McCormick and other members of the Committee spent many hours in investigating on the spot the position of the college and took the opportunity of discussing with Dr. Headlam the question of site. The Committee's Report was most carefully considered by the Board before it was endorsed.