HC Deb 23 July 1975 vol 896 cc252-3W
Mr. Flannery

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has yet received the results of the arbitration on teachers' salaries in England and Wales.

Mr. Mulley

I have received the report of the arbitral body appointed to determine the pay of schoolteachers in England and Wales. The arbitrators' recommendations, which subsume threshold payments, involve an increase of 22.3 per cent. effective from 1st April 1975. These recommendations have been transmitted to the Burnham Committee. The issue was referred to arbitration in May after negotiations had failed to produce agreement. The recommendations therefore fall within the transitional arrangements set out in paragraph 8 of the White Paper "The Attack on Inflation" (Cmnd. 6151).

Copies of the report will be placed in the Library.

Register April 1975 Unemployed registered disabled people regarded as suitable for ordinary employment June 1975 Unemployed registered disabled people regarded as unlikely to obtain employment except under sheltered conditions June 1975
Region Males Females Total Males Females Males Females
South-East 119,389 19,519 138,908 9,427 1,277 1,696 349
East Anglia 13,069 1,408 14,477 1,352 131 269 31
South-West 35,929 5,094 41,023 3,328 427 1,292 134
West Midlands 48,250 7,799 46,049 4,901 677 779 156
East Midlands 32,834 4,172 37,056 3,325 335 584 88
Yorkshire and Humberside 51,313 7,886 59,199 5,583 639 1,098 165
North-West 69,965 13,257 83,222 9,118 1,299 992 179
North 33,081 4,732 37,813 5,055 518 774 144
Wales 32,042 4,264 36,306 3,030 296 1,302 160
Scotland 44,556 8,608 53,164 4,766 710 655 174
Total for Great Britain 480,478 76,739 557,217 49,885 6,309 9,441 1,580

Mr. Watt

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled persons are at present unemployed in the Banffshire area.

Mr. Harold Walker

Sixty-one registered disabled people are currently unemployed in the area.