Mr. CHANCELLORasked how many male and how many female assistant teachers in endowed secondary schools and in State-aided secondary schools will be affected by the National Insurance Bill; and how many of each sex will be exempted by the various provisions in the First Schedule?
Mr. McKINNON WOODI understand that the Board of Education have no complete information as to the number of Assistant Teachers in Secondary Schools in England and Wales who will be affected by the National Insurance Bill. So far as information is at present available it may be said that in Secondary Schools on the Grant List of the Board of Education some 1,700 men and 3,400 women in whole time employment in one particular school or in a group of schools under one authority are in receipt of a salary of less than £160 a year, but the Board have no information as to the private means of these teachers or as to any other qualifications which may place them outside the scope of the Bill.