§ Mrs. Ewingasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what number of the 40,500 teachers who have registered with the General Teaching Council are not practising schoolroom teachers.
§ Mr. RossI have nothing to add to the reply of my hon. Friend the Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State on 5th May to the hon. Member for South Angus (Mr. Bruce Gardyne) except that, according to the announcement of the General Teaching Council on 13th May, 42,427 teachers had by then registered for the year commencing on 1st April.—[Vol. 783, c. 22–23.]