§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to 236W the number of teachers who have taken early retirement who are now re-employed in full-time, part-time or temporary teaching posts.
§ Mr. DunnThe Department does not maintain a record of the numbers of prematurely retired teachers whom authorities subsequently re-employ, but the evidence suggests that the proportion who are re-employed is very small. A special exercise showed that, of over 20,000 school teachers who had been released from service under the premature retirement scheme by 31 March 1983, 126 were re-employed on a part-time basis, and 12 on a full-time basis, on that date in which the authority had released them.