HC Deb 23 February 1922 vol 150 cc2120-1W
97. Mr. MILLS

asked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that the proposal of the Committee on National Expenditure relating to the closing of schools below 100 pupils will involve the closing of a large proportion of Roman Catholic schools in districts where there is no practical possibility of the Roman Catholic children thus excluded being found accommodation with-in convenient distance in other Roman Catholic schools; and whether, seeing that the proposal involves the massing of Roman Catholic children in council schools, he will take these matters into account before deciding to give effect to the recommendations of the Committee?

Mr. FISHER

I think the hon. Member is under a misapprehension. I do not find in the Report of the Committee any definite proposal which would involve such consequences.