§ Mrs. PeacockTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he has any plans to repeat the survey on the composition of governing bodies; and how many business men or women without connections with the education world are members of governing bodies.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe third in a series of surveys, currently being conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research, will provide further information about the composition of school governing bodies. The results will be available in the autumn. The second survey in the series, conducted last year, showed that over 40 per cent. of working governors, other than heads and elected teacher representatives, came from business or the professions.