§ Captain WRIGHTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether his attention has been called to a resolution passed on 6th October, 1916, by the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes, representing the local education authorities of Lancashire, Cheshire, Westmorland, Derbyshire, and the Isle of Man, that to secure increased educational efficiency the age of fourteen should be enacted as the only qualification for either partial or total exemption from attendance at school, the adequate provision of educational facilities should include provision for further education in the daytime for young people between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, and that employers be required to allow facilities for such instruction for at least six hours a week within the ordinary hours of employment; and whether he is taking or proposes to take any action in the direction indicated?
§ Mr. HERBERT LEWISI am aware of this resolution. I may refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to a question by the hon. Member for North Somerset on 10th October. These proposals will naturally receive full consideration by the Reviewing Committee set up for the purposes indicated.