§ Mr. George Wallaceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he will make an announcement about the findings of the arbitral body on teachers' pay.
§ Mr. CroslandI received the Report of the arbitral body late last week and have now made it available to all interested parties on the Burnham Committee. I am making the necessary arrangements to put the arbitrators' recommendations into effect in accordance with the provisions of the Remuneration of Teachers Act 1965.170W These recommendations will add about £1½ million to the annual cost, estimated at about £43 million, of the final offer the Management Panel made in negotiation in March of this year, raising the percentage increase from about 12½ per cent. to about 13 per cent., this increase to last for two years from 1st April, 1965. Printed copies of the Report will be available on Friday and I shall then place it in the Library.