§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is satisfied that the incremental system of salary payments in the teaching profession will in general be self-balancing in the current financial year.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe Burnham Committees, which are the relevant negotiating bodies, considered estimates of the cost of increments earlier this year in dealing with the settlement of teachers' 449W salaries for the current financial year but concluded that no offset against the £6 limit was justified.