§ Mr. Boydenasked the Minister of Education (1) what is the normal salary scale for a school clerk in a secondary modern school; and what relationship the proposed technician or auxiliary grades' scale of pay will have to that of the clerk;
(2) what is the normal scale of pay for full-time laboratory assistants in secondary schools.
§ Sir D. EcclesI understand that there is no standard salary scale for school clerks or laboratory assistants whose pay is settled by individual employing authorities having regard to the scales agreed in the National Joint Council for Local Authorities. Scales of pay for auxiliaries would be a matter for settlement between the parties in the normal way.
§ Mr. Boydenasked the Minister of Education (1) how many secondary modern schools are without full-time school clerks; how many have part-time clerks; and how many are without any clerical assistance;
(2) how many grammar schools, secondary technical, secondary modern and comprehensive schools, respectively, employ full-time laboratory assistants how many of these schools employ part-time assistants not attending the schools as pupils; and how many of these schools have no laboratory assistants.
§ Sir D. EcclesMy Department has not felt justified in the past in asking the schools and local education authorities to supply detailed statistical returns on these matters.