HC Deb 19 October 1989 vol 158 c224W
Mr. John D. Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland on how many occasions in each of the past 10 years the Department of Education exercised its power of direction in the case of managers of grant-aided schools for acting or proposing to act unreasonably in the discharge of their functions under the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Orders.

Dr. Mawhinney

Two such directions have been issued to education and library boards in their capacity as the managers of controlled schools. No such directions have been issued to managers of voluntary grant-aided schools.