§ 25. Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is his estimate of the number of unemployed persons possessing a teaching qualification in Wales.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonIn March, 290 unemployed school teachers were recorded at employment offices in Wales.
§ Mr. Gowasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will make it his policy to collect information on trends in wastage from and reentry to the teaching profession in order to enable him to give reliable estimates of likely teacher unemployment in future.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonInformation is already regularly available on past wastage from, and re-entry to, the teaching profession from records of teachers' service and salary which are held mainly for pension purposes. However, trends in wastage rates, reflecting as they do the economic and employment situation prevailing in past years, cannot at the present time be accepted as a reliable basis for framing estimates of likely teacher unemployment in the future.