Mr. EVANSasked the President of the Board of Education whether he will appoint one or more representative teachers to serve on the Committee which he proposes to set up to consider the question of teachers' superannuation?
Mr. YOUNGAs the Committee is appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I have been asked to reply. It is not proposed that any member of the Committee should be directly representative of the various classes of teachers who may be concerned. Such representations as these classes may wish to make will, no doubt, be fully presented to the Committee in evidence.
§ Mrs. WINTRINGHAMasked the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that Miss Trott, an art teacher at St. Angela's High School, Forest Gate, a school recognised by the Board, has been informed by his Department that she is not a full-time teacher for the purposes of the School Teachers (Superannuation) Act, 1918, despite the facts that she teaches for 24 periods out of 34 teaching periods per week; that she spends, as is customary in secondary schools, the other periods in correction work; that she is a capable specialist who has organised the art teaching throughout the school; that, in addition to working during the whole of the ordinary school hours, she, according to the statement of her headmistress, is often occupied by her school duties until 6 or 7 o'clock in the evening, and that she holds no other appointment, devoting all her energies to the school; and whether he will give instructions for a reconsideration of her case?
§ Mr. FISHERThe information in the Board's possession last November, when the case was dealt with, was not entirely in accordance with the facts as stated in the question. If a full statement of Miss Trott's duties is forwarded to the Board, her case will again be considered in the light of it?