§ Mr. McENTEEasked the President of the Board of Education whether, seeing that the secretary of the committee of inquiry into the provision of libraries in secondary schools, which was set up by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust and which is to report to the trustees, is a civil servant in his Department, and that all correspondence of the committee in sent out on Board of Education notepaper from the Board's office, he will state why this private trust is afforded the services of State servants, office accommodation, and material?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMThe stationery used for the correspondence of this com- 31W mittee is supplied by the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, and not, as the hon. Member assumes, by the Board. The subject of the inquiry is one of great interest to the Board and one with which they are directly concerned. They accordingly thought it proper to place at the disposal of the committee the part-time services of one of their officers as its secretary and accommodation for its meetings.