HC Deb 13 February 1979 vol 962 cc533-4W
Mr. Faulds

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the date from which revaluation upwards to take account of current prices will be the teachers' panel of the Burnham primary and secondary committee.

My right hon. Friend does not accept that the National Union of Teachers will be over-represented in the revised determination she intends to make. She and her predecessors have consistently held that the claimed membership of an organisation among teachers serving in maintained schools in England and Wales should not be the sole criterion for determining the basis of representation.