§ Viscount WOLMERasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that complaint was made last November by parents of children in New Lock School, Llanelly, that the teacher had, during school hours, read extracts to his class from Socialist newspapers; whether the Ministry of Education has taken any action in this matter in particular, and in general, to prevent the dissemination of revolutionary doctrines by school teachers?
§ Mr. FISHERI understand that a complaint of the kind indicated was made to the Llanelly Local Education Authority last November, and that the authority held a special meeting to investigate it. It appears that no evidence was forthcoming from those who made the charges, and the inquiry was not proceeded with. I have no ground for supposing that teachers in State-aided schools abuse their position to disseminate revolutionary doctrines.