HC Deb 05 February 1980 vol 978 c153W
56. Mr. Blackburn

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether it is a condition of service that a teacher, either in a school or in a place of further or higher education, must belong to a trade union.

Dr. Boyson

There is no such condition of service, except where the employing authority may have negotiated a closed shop agreement in consultation with the unions it recognises.