Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [‎136r] (271/442)

Oral Answers.
Oral Answers.
1904
10 July 1912
1903
Secretary of State power to transfer men
tally defective persons from prison to an
institution for defectives.
Suffragist Prisoners.
76. Lord HUGH CECIL asked the Sec
retary of State for the Home Department
whether, having regard to the time that
Miss Ada Wright, a prisoner undergoing
imprisonment for offences in connection
with the agitation for the suffrage, had now
been in prison and to all the circumstances
of the case, he would advise the remission
of the remainder of her sentence l
Mr. McKENNA: This prisoner's sen
tence was remitted, and she was dis
charged last Thursday.
Franchise and Registration Bill.
78. Mr. GEORGE TERRELL asked the
President of the Board of Education if he
would state the estimated number of the
additions to the electorate in the con
stituencies of Romford, South-East Essex,
Wandsworth, and Kilkenny, respectively,
which would occur in the event of the
Franchise and Registration Bill becoming
law ?
The PARLIAMENTARY SECRETABY
to the BOARD of EDUCATION (Mr.
Trevelyan): I am afraid it is not possible,
for reasons which my right hon. Friend has
already given in his answer to the hon.
Member for Lincoln on the 1st July, to
give any estimate of the additions to the
electorate in the constituencies named.
Mr. BURGOYNE: Was the estimate of
2,000,000 people to be added to the register
purely guess-work?
Mr. TREVELYAN : I assume it was a
general estimate.
Education (Scotland).
81. Major ANSTRUTHER-GRAY asked
the Secretary for Scotland whether his at
tention has been called to the new allo
cation of the Education (Scotland) Fund
whereby the counties of Fife and Kinross
suffer to the extent of £5,348, a reduction
which is equivalent to 2s. 8cl. per pupil;
and whether, considering the reductions
which are being made generally through
out Scotand, he will represent to the
Treasury the necessity of increasing the
Grant in order not to unduly deplete the
education fund ?
The SECRETARY for SCOTLAND (Mr.
McKinnon Wood): It is not a question
of reductions being made in the payments
by the Treasury for educational purposes
in Scotland, but of a different allocation
and of the money being spent in a different
way. The statement that the counties of
Fife and Kinross “ suffer" to the extent of
£5,348 does not accurately represent the
financial position.
Mr. EUGENE WASON : May I ask when
the right hon. Gentleman will be in a posi
tion to give us an accurate statement as ta
the loss these two counties respectively
have sustained by the new method of allo
cation ?
Mr. McKI N NON WOOD : The statement
has been published. But the phrase “ loss
as applied to the particular sum in ques
tion is an inaccurate phrase and does not
represent the facts. A statement of the
sum which will be received has been pub
lished in a Paper which was printed about
ten days ago.
Major ANSTRUTHER-GRAY: Will the
right hon. Gentleman, seeing that with only
four exceptions the whole of the recipients
of the money are going to have less than
they were going to have, approach the
Treasury to see if he can put the matter
right? Will the right hon. Gentleman
answer the last few words of my question ?
Mr. McKINNON WOOD: The question
of receiving money for one purpose or
another and of spending it upon one edu
cational purpose or another—I do not think
that is accurately suggested.
Sir WALTER MENZIES: Is it not the
case that several educational districts in
Scotland have been receiving for some two
or three years past more than their fair
allocation from this Scottish Education
Fund ?
Mr. McKINNON WOOD: Yes, Sir, that
is the case in this sense, that money that
ought to have gone to the superannuation
of teachers has gone for other purposes;
now that the superannuation of teachers'
scheme is complete the money is devoted
to that purpose.
Mr. HOGGE rose
Mr. SPEAKER : The subject seems to be
more suitable for discussion on Scottish
Estimates.
Farm and Garden Produce (Postal
Conveyance).
83. Mr. CHARLES BATHURST asked
the Postmaster-General whether in view