§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what provision will exist for religious education teacher training in local authority colleges if the proposals announced on 9 August are implemented.
§ Mr. Greenwayasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what would be the distribution of 214W teacher education places for teachers of religious education if his proposals of August were implemented without amendment.
§ Mr. Waldegrave:The proposals announced on 9 August were provisional and are unlikely to be implemented without some changes. They provided for 120 full-time equivalent religious education secondary students each year in universities and 225 in voluntary colleges. No secondary religious education allocation was made to institutions maintained by local education authorities, but it was assumed that religious education would continue in such institutions, both in relation to the training of curriculum leaders in religious education for primary schools and more widely for primary teachers generally.