40. Mr. Palmerasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he has made any inquiries which would enable him to judge the effects of the issue to local educational authorities of the Board of Education pamphlet on homework?
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education (Mr. Kenneth Lindsay)Inquiries made since the issue of the pamphlet show that it has met with a substantial measure of agreement on the part of both local education authorities and teachers, and that its recommendations are already being implemented in a number of areas, particularly as regards the setting of homework to junior children. The matter is one which His Majesty's inspectors have been instructed to keep under observation.