§ Colonel Lord HENRI CAVENDISH-BENTINCKasked the President of the Local Government Board, whether he is aware that the Oxford Board of Guardians has applied for permission to close their Poor Law school at Cowley and transfer the children to scattered homes, converting the school into a sanatorium for tuberculous patients; is he aware that at a recent meeting a Local Government Board inspector made a speech opposing the proposed change; and whether he intends to give his sanction to the scheme?
§ Mr. HAIES FISHERThe answer to the first two parts of the question is in the affirmative. In addition to the Oxford children, the school receives children from other unions for whom there would be no accommodation but the workhouse, and as I could not sanction expenditure on the provision of alternative accommodation in existing circumstances I have suggested that the proposal to close the school should for the present remain in abeyance.