§ 14. Mr. Steelasked the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next intends to meet the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities to discuss expenditure guidelines and future local authority spending.
§ Mr. YoungerI shall meet the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities on 7 December for one of my regular meetings with it to discuss local authority expenditure.
§ Mr. SteelBefore the meeting, when the representatives of the convention complain to the Secretary of State about the effect that public guidelines are having on the future of Scottish education, will he accept the need for an independent review of the teaching profession, in view of the way in which it has fallen far behind in the national wages structure?
§ Mr. YoungerI have now had meetings with the teachers' representatives and the employers' representatives, and I am considering what they said to me at those meetings.