§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish, for the latest available 12-month period, the total financial costs, including administration, of the National Building Agency, the amount disbursed by that body, the number of persons, including secretaries, involved with the body, the amount of payment for, respectively, members of the body by way of salary or equivalent, expenses of members, and secretarial salaries and expenses; and what the figures in all the above categories in each of the past five years, are respectively.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergI have been asked to reply.
The National Building Agency's members are its chairman and directors, who are part-time with the exception of the managing director. The information requested, for the last five years for which audited accounts are available, is given in the attached table.
intervene in the current negotiations between Scottish local authorities and the teachers' unions in the event of the management side making an offer in excess of 14 per cent. to the teachers.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherNo. It is for the management side of the Scottish Teachers Salaries Committee to decide what offer can appropriately be made.