I beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether he will make compliance with the Cowper-Temple clause (Section 14 of the Education Act, 1870) one of the conditions to be fulfilled by all public elementary council schools in order to obtain a Parliamentary grant, or whether he will at once take some other steps to obtain the power of enforcing strict obedience to this clause on the part of all local education authorities.

On my reading of the Code the Board already have power to make compliance with the Cowper-Temple clause a condition for the receipt of Parliamentary grants.