Mr. Buchanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he will now publish the recommendations of the Scottish Joint Council on Teachers' Salaries;
(2) whether, in considering the recommendation of the Scottish Joint Council on Teachers' Salaries, he will give special consideration to the need for increased starting salaries and a reduction of the number of increments;
(3) whether, in considering the recommendations of the Scottish Joint Council on Teachers' Salaries, he will take into account the disparity now existing between the salaries of Scottish and English college-trained woman teachers.
§ Mr. RossI would prefer not to anticipate in any way the outcome of my consideration of the Scottish Joint Council's recommendations, which it is normal practice to make known when draft Salaries Regulations are issued. The many differences between the salaries of comparable groups of teachers in the two countries arise partly because negotiations are conducted separately, partly because the structure of salaries and of qualifications in the professions are quite different and, on this occasion, partly because Scottish teachers, having received a 10 per cent. salary increase in 1963 to220W last for three years compared with the 7 per cent. for two years awarded to teachers in England, are not due their next revision until April, 1966.