§ Mr. Flanneryasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has yet received the results of the arbitration on teachers' salaries in England and Wales.
§ Mr. MulleyI have received the report of the arbitral body appointed to determine the pay of schoolteachers in England 253W and Wales. The arbitrators' recommendations, which subsume threshold payments, involve an increase of 22.3 per cent. effective from 1st April 1975. These recommendations have been transmitted to the Burnham Committee. The issue was referred to arbitration in May after negotiations had failed to produce agreement. The recommendations therefore fall within the transitional arrangements set out in paragraph 8 of the White Paper "The Attack on Inflation" (Cmnd. 6151).
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Register April 1975 Unemployed registered disabled people regarded as suitable for ordinary employment June 1975 Unemployed registered disabled people regarded as unlikely to obtain employment except under sheltered conditions June 1975 Region Males Females Total Males Females Males Females South-East … 119,389 19,519 138,908 9,427 1,277 1,696 349 East Anglia … 13,069 1,408 14,477 1,352 131 269 31 South-West … 35,929 5,094 41,023 3,328 427 1,292 134 West Midlands … 48,250 7,799 46,049 4,901 677 779 156 East Midlands … 32,834 4,172 37,056 3,325 335 584 88 Yorkshire and Humberside … 51,313 7,886 59,199 5,583 639 1,098 165 North-West … 69,965 13,257 83,222 9,118 1,299 992 179 North … 33,081 4,732 37,813 5,055 518 774 144 Wales … 32,042 4,264 36,306 3,030 296 1,302 160 Scotland … 44,556 8,608 53,164 4,766 710 655 174 Total for Great Britain … 480,478 76,739 557,217 49,885 6,309 9,441 1,580
§ Mr. Wattasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many disabled persons are at present unemployed in the Banffshire area.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerSixty-one registered disabled people are currently unemployed in the area.