§ 24. Brigadier Mackesonasked the Minister of Education to what organisations and unions the working party, set up to deal with the responsibility of teachers in connection with school meals, belong; and what experience in catering the different members have.
§ The Minister of Education (Miss Ellen Wilkinson)The working party is no longer in being, having fulfilled its purpose of making recommendations to me, as a consequence of which Circular 97 was issued. The members were: the Secretary of the Association of Education Committees, the Education Officer of the London County Council, the Secretary of the Education Committee of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and three members Of the National Union of Teachers, together with three officers from my Department. The working party was not concerned with catering questions, but with the responsibilities of the teachers for supervision.
§ Brigadier MackesonCould the right hon. Lady say why the National Union of Women Teachers were not represented?
§ Miss WilkinsonBecause in these matters the National Union of Teachers is taken as representing the overwhelming body of organised teachers.