HC Deb 22 October 1912 vol 42 cc1953-4W
Mr. CLOUGH

asked the President of the Board of Education whether he will give the names of the new denominational elementary schools, the distinctive denomination to which each belongs, the number of school places each is calculated to accommodate, and the local education authority in which each is situated, to which he has given his consent since 24th October, 1911?

Mr. PEASE

The following table shows the number of proposals to provide voluntary schools to which my consent has been given since 24th October, 1911:—

Local Education Authority. School. Denomination. Accommodation.
Glossop Whitfield Church of England 210
Leicester C.C. Owston Church of England 30
Warwick C.C. Polesworth Infants Church of England 192
Worcester C.C. Birlingham (at present certified efficient) Church of England 50
Northants C.C. Thorpe Malsor (at present certified efficient) Church of England 36
Norfolk C.C. East Dereham Church of England 144
Harts Burghclere Church of England 60
London Paddington, Woodchester Street Church of England 250
Northumberland Whitley and Monkseaton Roman Catholic 200
Stretford Trafford Park Roman Catholic 150
Hartlepool Hart Road Roman Catholic 200
Liverpool Silvester Street Roman Catholic 500
Yorks, West Riding Barnoldswick Roman Catholic 200
South Shields St. Bede's Roman Catholic 500
London Kensington, Notting Hill, Pottery Lane Roman Catholic 250
Westmorland Waitby and Smardale Undenominational 25
Cheshire Mottram-in-Longdendale Undenominational 195

An appeal was received from ratepayers against the proposed Church of England school at Whitfield, an appeal from ratepayers and from the managers of provided schools was made against the proposal to

provide a Church of England school at East Dereham, and an appeal was made by the local education authority against the proposal to provide a Roman Catholic school at Barnoldswick. No appeals were received in the remaining fourteen cases. In eight of the seventeen cases denominational schools had previously been recognised in the areas concerned.

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