HC Deb 10 February 1955 vol 536 cc247-8W
Mr. M. Stewart

asked the Minister of Education the annual expenditure on teachers' salaries; and what proportions of this total are borne, respectively, by rates and by grants from the central government.

Sir D. Eccles

The latest available figures show that in 1953–54 expenditure on the salaries of teachers in maintained schools and colleges was roughly £153 million. About 60 per cent. of this was met by the Exchequer.

Sir D. Eccles

Of all the estimates I have seen relating to teachers the increase needed at the peak of the school population is round 50,000, but the assumptions on which such a calculation has to be made are too uncertain to make the figure of much value. With buildings the calculation is even more unreal.