§ Mr. R. MORRISONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether the Treasury has agreed to accept the Board of Education's ruling that service in special schools where the teachers bold full-time appointments, but where the nominal school hours are less than 1,080 per year, is regarded as service in a school organised on a full-time basis for the purposes of the Teachers' Superannuation Act?
§ Mr. TREVELYANI have been asked to reply to this question. The answer is in the affirmative. The circulars on full-time service issued by the Board of Education after consultation with the Treasury lay down that a year's teaching service should not be regarded as "full-time" unless it can reasonably be supposed to occupy at least 30 hours a week1034W during 36 weeks, or the equivalent: but this number of hours was "intended to include, not only the hours of actual teaching, but also hours devoted to subsidiary duties entailed by actual teaching."