§ Sir R. GOWERasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he is aware that in certain states of America animal welfare is a compulsory subject in elementary schools; and whether he will consider the desirability of making it similarly compulsory in elementary schools in this country?
§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the second part, the board do not prescribe the subjects to be included in the curriculum of public
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Department. Number of Writing Assistants employed on 1st April, 1933. Percentage promoted to General Clerical Class. Percentage promoted to Departmental Clerical Class. Admiralty 216 1.9 — Agriculture and Fisheries 47 8.5 — Agriculture (Scotland) 7 — — Air Ministry 14 — — Civil Service Commission 8 — — Control, Board of (Scotland) 2 — — County Courts Department 1 — — Customs and Excise 96 — 2.1 Education, Board of 36 2.8 — Exchequer and Audit 10 — — Export Credits 3 — — Foreign Office 18 — — Health, Ministry of (including General Register Office and Welsh Board of Health) 1,115 .9 — Health, Department of (Scotland) 92 1.1 — Home Office 38 5.3 — Inland Revenue 903 — .7 Labour, Ministry of 690 3.0 40.0 National Debt Office 1 — — National Savings Committee 15 26.7 — Overseas Trade Department 22 13.6 — Paymaster General's Office. 53 3.8 — Pensions, Ministry of 395 3.3 — Prison Commission 1 — — Prisons Department (Scotland) 1 — — Post Office 3,268 3.4 — Public Trustee 54 1.9 — Public Works Loan Board 12 — — Stationery Office 9 — — Supreme Court 1 100.0 — Supreme Court, N.I. 5 — — Trade, Board of 89 — — Transport, Ministry of 14 — — elementary schools, but their Handbook of Suggestions for Teachers calls attention to the desirability of inculcating kindness to animals, and my Noble Friend has every reason to believe that teachers take full advantage of their opportunities for doing so.