§ Mr. McGradyTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what action he proposes to take regarding the position of trustees of voluntary maintained schools who under paragraphs 57 to 67 of the White Paper on education will have their school properties confiscated without compensation or consultation, if governors and parents elect to apply for grant maintained status.
§ Dr. MawhinneyNo decisions will be reached on matters raised in the consultative document on education reform until all representations have been fully considered. The consultative document does, however, indicate that trustee appointees would comprise at least half of the membership of the board of governors of a grant-maintained school and that any legislation would ensure that the religious ethos of a school would not be changed at the time when it became grant-maintained.