§ 79. Mr. TURTONasked the President of the Board of Education whether he still adheres to his estimate of 13,000 additional teachers being required by 1932–33; and what is the estimated cost of this increase of teaching staff?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANI see no reason to vary this estimate of the probable increase in teaching staff within three years. The estimated cost would be somewhere in the region of £3,000,000; but I would remind the hon. Member that a considerable proportion of this would be due, not to the raising of the school-leaving age, but to normal developments.
§ Mr. ANNESLEY SOMERVILLEDoes that number of 13,000 include the number of additional teachers necessary to reduce all classes below a total of 50?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANThat is part of it.