§ Mr. HADDOCKasked the President of the Board of Education if he will state when the Board propose to deal with the school endowments within the administrative county of Lancaster as to which schemes have been submitted or with regard to which the decision of the Board has been asked, seeing that injustice is being done to ratepayers in many townships owing to the income from numerous endowments having been locked up since 1903?
§ Mr. RUNCIMAN:The Board have been under the necessity of postponing proceedings with respect to a considerable number of endowments applicable or applied to Elementary Education, partly in view of the recent Bills with respect to Elementary Education, and partly in view of the pressure of more immediately urgent work in the Legal Department of their Office. The Board are now proceeding with these eases with as little delay as possible.
§ Mr. HADDOCKasked the President of the Board of Education if he will explain why the scheme applied for by the trustees of the Brow Edge Endowed School, Upper Holker, Lancashire, and which was approved by the Lancashire Education Committee some years ago, is not proceeded with; and whether the Board of Education is aware that the income of the endowment has been lying idle since the appointed day under the Education Act of 1902, entirely against the wishes of the trustees or of the ratepayers of Upper Holker?
§ Mr. RUNCIMAN:This scheme was suspended, with others, in view of the recent Bills relating to Elementary Education. The matter is now being proceeded with, and the Draft Scheme was yesterday communicated by the Board to the Trustees and the Local Education Authority.