HC Deb 14 November 1989 vol 160 c228W
79. Mr. Illsley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he has to encourage qualified teachers who are no longer teaching back into the profession.

82. Mr. Win Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of Stale for Education and Science what proposals he has to encourage qualified teachers who are no longer teaching back into the profession.

Mr. Alan Howarth

Our proposed education support grant programme for 1990–91 includes support for expenditure of over £2 million on local recruitment measures to attract back more former teachers and to recruit mature entrants. Activities supported by this programme will build on considerable success: over half of all entrants to teaching in recent years have been former serving teachers returning to the classroom.