§ Commander Purseyasked the Secretary of State for Scotland why Scottish education authorities will not pay the fees for the orphan sons of Scottish seafarers to be educated at the Royal Navy's orphanage, the Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Suffolk, particularly in cases where the widow has other young children and has to go out to work to pay her orphan son's fees.
§ Mr. RossThe decision whether to grant a bursary in these circumstances rests entirely in the discretion of the education authority concerned and I have no power to intervene.