HL Deb 31 October 1990 vol 522 cc1894-5WA
Lord Denning

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether, following the Answer of the Lord Chancellor on 22nd October 1990 (H.L. Debates Col. 1231), it is not still necessary for the Attorney-General to take steps to test the assumption of diocesan authorities that assets belong to the centre (Archbishops' Commission on Rural England paragraph 11–19), seeing that the express provision in Section 2 applies only "to the locality served or previously served by the voluntary school" and does not extend to the whole diocese.

The Lord Chancellor

The Attorney-General does not consider it necessary to take such steps. The provision made in Section 2 of the Education Act 1973 as amended by Section 112 of the Education Reform Act 1988 is sufficiently broad to permit the Secretary of State to make a scheme or schemes for the endowments to be used for appropriate educational purposes, either in connection with voluntary schools generally in the diocese or partly in connection with voluntary schools and partly in other ways related to the locality served by the former school.