§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what estimates he has made of the number of science teachers(a) which would have been required to implement the recommendations in full of the science working party, and (b) which will be required to implement the proposal on science of the National Curriculum Council, for each year between 1990 and 1995.
§ Mrs. RumboldMy Department's recent memorandum to the Education, Science and Arts Committee includes tentative projections of the numbers of science teachers who will be needed in schools in 1995 when statutory requirements relating to science will be implemented in full. These are broadly in line with numbers needed to implement the science working group's recommendation that all pupils should spend one sixth of their curriculum time in secondary years I to 5 on science.