§ 58. Mr. Bruce-Gardyneasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will take steps to reinstate forthwith teachers who were dismissed from teaching for failure to register with the General Teaching Council in respect of 1968–69, pending the outcome of his investigation into the number of teachers who are currently employed in schools and who have failed to reregister since 1st April, 1969.
§ Mr. MillanNo, Sir.
§ Mr. Bruce-GardyneWill not the hon. Gentleman now recognise that unless these teachers who were dismissed last year are reinstated forthwith and unless the attempt to bully others into registration by threats of dismissing them is abandoned, the General Teaching Council itself is in danger of collapsing?
§ Mr. MillanNo, I would not accept either of those propositions.