§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out the basis for the calculation of the numbers of extra infant class teachers in post in September recently announced by his Department. [59668]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisWe provided grants of £22 million to 65 local education authorities to provide 1,527 extra teachers to reduce infant class sizes from this September. The figure of 1,527 is based on information supplied by local education authorities to the Department.