§ Mr. EnrightTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many hours per week, on average, are devoted by(a) school staff and (b) school pupils to voluntary activities outside school hours; and what information he has as to their equivalent figures for the United States of America, France, Germany and Japan.
§ Mr. ForthData on the amount of time teachers in maintained secondary schools in England spent on extra-curricular activities were collected as part of the 1992 secondary school staffing survey. On average, full-time teachers recorded spending about one and a half hours on these activities in the survey week—13 to 19 January 1992. No corresponding data are available for pupils in secondary schools or for teachers or pupils in primary schools. Likewise, equivalent figures are not held centrally for the other countries listed.