§ Sir T. BRAMSDONasked the President of the Board of Education whether the Board of Education recommended no further increases in the pay of naval schoolmasters in July, 1919, in the face of the recommendations of the Jerram-Halsey Committee, who were well acquainted with the schoolmasters' conditions of service and work; and whether, in the case of schoolmasters who succeed in obtaining their discharge from His Majesty's Navy, their full periods of service in the Navy will be taken into account in fixing their commencing salaries in schools recognised by the Board of Education ashore?
§ Mr. FISHERThe answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. As regards the second part of the question, the Board does not fix the commencing salaries of teachers employed by local education authorities and governing bodies, though it prescribes minimum salaries in public elementary schools.