§ Mr. DafisTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what steps are currently undertaken by his Department to monitor the number of(a) disabled teachers in employment and (b) disabled students on initial teacher training courses.
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThe information is not collected centrally at present. However, as part of a wider588W review of statistical returns on students taking teacher training courses, it may be possible for the future to include information about numbers of disabled students on such courses.