§ Mr. SHORTasked the President of the Board of Education the total number of uncertificated teachers employed under the various educational authorities; and can he state the authorities so employing them?
Mr. WOOD:For a summary statement of the number of uncertificated teachers employed in public elementary schools maintained by local education authorities, I may refer the hon. Member to the reply which I gave this afternoon to the hon. Member for East Ham (Me. Barnes), a copy of which I am sending him. On the 31st March, 1921, the latest date for which I possess full and accurate returns, there was no local education authority which did not employ some uncertificated teachers. The hon. Member will find various particulars as to the distribution of uncertificated teachers in the tables published on pages 18 to 65 of the board's statistical volume for the year 1919–20. I cannot undertake to reproduce in the Reports of the House a similar table for later years, but I will gladly furnish the hon. Member with information relating to any particular area.