§ 84. Dr. Kingasked the Minister of Education if he will consider excluding from the quota any married woman teacher recruited back into the profession by a local education authority, for the first year of her return.
§ Sir D. EcclesThe precise suggestion made by the hon. Member is not free from difficulty; but I am about to make changes in the quota arrangements, on these lines, to help authorities to encourage the return of more qualified married women teachers to the schools.
§ 85. Dr. Kingasked the Minister of Education if he will introduce a measure whereby a teacher's war service and National Service which does not at present rank as pensionable, shall be made pensionable on payment by the teacher of the necessary contributions.
§ Sir D. EcclesNo. It is an established principle of public service pension schemes that account should be taken of war or National Service only when this occurs after a person has entered pensionable civil employment. This principle80W has already been stretched to accommodate teachers whose training was interrupted by war service.
§ 86. Mr. W. Hamiltonasked the Minister of Education what representations he has received from the teaching profession consequent on the recently announced proposals for increased pay for the police; and what reply he has sent.
§ Sir D. EcclesSuch representations as I have received welcome the rise in police pay and urge that teachers' salaries should be increased immediately. Some have requested a Royal Commission on teachers' pay. I am replying that in my view the Burnham machinery is adequate for consideration of these matters.