§ Sir E. Graham-Littleasked the Minister of Education what is the composition in categories of the 9,000 additional teachers who have reached the national schools since March, 1947; and what is the number of additional pupils derived chiefly from the extra age group who have been admitted to the schools to date.
§ Mr. TomlinsonThe increase of approximately 9,000 full-time primary and secondary school teachers has been effected since 1938 and not since March, 1947, as the hon. Member states. Particulars of the composition of the teacher force in March, 1948, will not be available for some months. The number of82W 14-year-old pupils in maintained and assisted primary and secondary schools, other than special schools, in January, 1948, is provisionally estimated to have been 389,000 as compared with 150,000 in January, 1947. In January, 1948, the full effects of the raising of the age had not been felt in the schools.