HC Deb 12 March 1942 vol 378 c1189
36. Mr. Ivor Thomas

asked the President of the Board of Education whether, in order to ensure a supply of teachers willing and competent to give religious instruction, he will make religious knowledge an optional subject and not merely an additional option in the course of training for the teachers' certificate?

Mr. Butler

Representations have already been made to me on this subject, and I am consulting the various interests concerned. I am not yet in a position to announce a decision.