asked the President of the Board of Education who constitute the Board of Education, and the number of occasions on which it has met during the last three years?

The Board consists of a President, the Lord President of the Council, His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the First Commissioner of His Majesty's Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. I can find no record of any meeting of the Board.

Has consideration recently been given to the question whether this is the best machinery for conducting the educational affairs of this country, and does not the right hon. Gentleman think that he might have a board over which he should preside?

That will, no doubt, be a matter of interesting discussion in the House, but I do not feel the need of it at present.