§ 1. Mr. Thomas Macphersonasked the Minister of Education if he will make a statement regarding arrangements to implement the policy of equal pay for equal work for members of the teaching profession.
§ The Minister of Education (Mr. Tomlinson)I have nothing to add to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham (Mr. Hale) on 19th December last.
§ Mr. MacphersonMay I ask my right hon. Friend if he appreciates that the principle of equal pay for equal work has already been accepted by the Government in the payment of Members of Parliament 1357 and even of Cabinet Ministers, as well as in many of lie professions, and, as our new Minister of Education, will he promise to do his best to try to establish this long overdue reform so far as the teaching profession is concerned?
§ Mr. TomlinsonAgain, I would refer my hon. Friend to the answer previously given, which takes all those things into consideration.