§ 52. Mr. Stanbrookasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what advice she is giving local education authorities whose teaching staff are refusing admission to schoolchildren on the ground that their classes are oversize.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonNone. There is no statutory definition of maximum class size. Although my right hon. Friend very much regrets the development of disputes of the kind to which the hon. Member refers they are essentially matters between the employing authority and the teachers concerned, and there is no basis on which my right hon. Friend could intervene.