HC Deb 17 April 1969 vol 781 cc282-3W
Mr. Peter Mills

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of men and women teachers leave the service within five years of taking up their first appointment.

Miss Bacon

This information is not available, but figures of wastage of qualified teachers in maintained primary and secondary schools over the six years 1961–62 to 1966–67 were published last week in Table 24 of Statistics of Education, 1967, Volume 4.

Mr. Peter Mills

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what estimate he has made of the extra teachers needed to reduce class sizes to 30 in primary and secondary schools.

Miss Bacon

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the Member for Barkston Ash (Mr. Alison) in the House today.