HC Deb 19 January 1988 vol 125 c620W
23. Miss Mowlam

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the submissions to the interim advisory body on teachers pay and conditions; and if he will make a statement.

28. Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the submissions to the interim advisory body on teachers pay and conditions; and if he will make a statement.

30. Mr. Eastham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the submissions to the interim advisory body on teachers pay and conditions; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

A number of submissions from different bodies have been made to the interim advisory committee on teachers' pay and conditions. It is for the committee to consider whether to make them more widely available. I understand that the committee has decided that the principal consultees should have the opportunity to consider each other's submissions.

24. Mr. Madel

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he expects to receive any interim report from the Chilver committee inquiry into teachers' pay, with particular reference to hours worked by teachers; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

The interim advisory committee on school teachers' pay and conditions has been asked to submit its advice by 31 March 1988. I have no indication that the committee intends to submit an interim report in advance of that date.

50. Mr. Fisher

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he has any plans to increase the money available for the current year's teachers' pay award; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

My right hon. Friend has asked the interim advisory committee to make recommendations about teachers' pay in 1988 which do not cost more than an additional £300 million in the 1988–89 financial year and he has no plans to change that remit.

67. Mr. Morley

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will now take steps to restore teachers' negotiating rights on pay and conditions of service; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

The Government published a Green Paper, "Teachers' Pay and Conditions: A Consultative Document" (Cm. 238) last autumn which proposed the establishment of a teachers' negotiating group which would provide for future negotiations for teachers' pay and conditions. Comments on the proposals in the Green Paper were requested by the end of this month.