§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he intends to compensate teachers in colleges of education made redundant between 1 April 1979 and 31 August 1980 by basing their redundancy pay on the salaries recommended by the Clegg Commission; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Dr. BoysonThe Colleges of Education (Compensation) Regulations 1975 provide for three types of compensation: resettlement compensation, long-term386W compensation and retirement compensation. Resettlement and long-term compensation are calculated in relation to the actual loss or diminution suffered in emoluments and will therefore not be related, before 1 September 1980, to rates of pay that became operative only from that date. In so far as retirement compensation is calculated by reference to "average salary" within the meaning of the Teachers' Superannuation Regulations 1976, it will be increased as a result of the decision to apply the staged increases agreed in the Burnham committees for 1979–80 as notional salaries from 1 April 1979, for pensions purposes.