§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Education the present total number of teachers in the National schools; how many university graduates, two-year trainees from recognised training colleges, and one-year trainees from improvised emergency colleges, respectively, have been drafted into these schools since 1st April, 1945; how many new buildings or new premises have been taken over by 300W the schools within the same period; and how many of these have been prefabricated huts and buildings, respectively.
§ Miss WilkinsonAt the end of December, 1945, there were approximately 176,000 teachers in maintained and assisted primary and secondary schools. The information asked for in the second part of the Question is not available, but it will be appreciated that the first colleges established under the Ministry's Emergency Training Scheme were opened only in May, 1945, and as the course lasts one year, none of their students have yet left college. There are, however, now serving in the schools 28 teachers who followed an emergency course of training which began in the autumn of 1944 at Goldsmiths' Training College.
In answer to the third and fourth parts of the Question, no new permanent buildings for schools have been erected since April, 1945. Prefabricated huts have been supplied for use as classrooms at about 100 schools in order to extend the teaching accommodation