§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when local authorities intend to pay the retrospective salary increases recommended by the Houghton Report; and whether he will seek to expedite payment before the beginning of the 1975–76 tax year.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe management panel of the Burnham Committee has undertaken to ask local authorities to pay the salary increases without delay and, wherever possible, before the end of the 1974–75 tax year.