§ Sir W. EDGEasked the President of the Board of Education what educational authorities, either in their whole area or in parts of it, pay their teachers under the Burnham Scale No- 2; and whether the policy of his Department is sympathetic to the general payment of Scale No. 3?
§ Lord E. PERCYI would refer the hon. Member to Appendix I of the Third Report of the Standing Joint Committee on the salaries of teachers in public elementary schools, a copy of which I am sending him. The allocated scale has been adopted by all authorities except Carmarthenshire, who pay Scale III in the industrial parts of their area and Scale II in the rural parts. As regards the second part of the question, I think the hon. Member has forgotten that the minimum duration of the present agreement is six years from the 31st March, 1925.