§ MR. E. H. HULSE (Salisbury)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education if 1616 he is prepared to furnish the House with a Return of all elementary school teachers, male and female, who are at present occupied in the work of education, and have attained the ages of 60 and 65 respectively?
THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (Mr. A. H. D. ACLAND York, W.R., Holderness)A Return including this information, for all certificated teachers employed in elementary public schools during the year ended 31st August 1890, was furnished on the Motion of the hon. Baronet the Member for Kingston, in 1891, when the School Board for London Superannuation Bill was under consideration by a Select Committee of this House, of which the hon. Baronet was Chairman. The figures of this Return, which will also be found more fully analysed in Appendix 10 to the Report of the Select Committee, were used as the basis of the calculations made by the Departmental Committee in its recent investigations into the general question of teachers' superannuation, and that Committee did not find it necessary to ask that a fresh Return should be prepared. Such a Return would involve a great deal of labour, and I hardly think it is necessary at present; but if the hon. Member still wishes to press for it, it can be furnished.
§ MR. H. S. FOSTER (Suffolk, Lowestoft)I beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he proposes, during the present Session, to introduce any measure for the superannuation of teachers in the public elementary schools, in accordance with the recommendations of the Departmental Committee appointed by him, with the concurrence of the Treasury, to consider the question?
§ MR. ACLANDThis is a very large question which involves a very large sum of money, and requires very careful consideration; but the Government are not without hopes of being able to deal with it in the course of this Session.