Clause 82. — (Remuneration of teachers.)

Part of Orders of the Day — Education Bill – in the House of Commons at on 30 March 1944.

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I do not desire to prevent the Committee from coming to an early decision on the Vote of Confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government, but I do want to avail myself of the opportunity, Major Milner, which you indicated from the Chair of speaking on this Motion. I do not agree with the hon. Member who spoke of the embarrassment of Members who voted in the Division on Tuesday last. Indeed, since this Vote of Confidence has been put forward we can now see that it is the Government who are embarrassed and not the Members who voted against it. Hon. Members who say that the vote which took place two days ago has done harm in the country might surely reflect that the mixing up of domestic policies and military issues and then having a Vote of Confidence on a Clause standing part of an Education Bill, will do far more harm to the prestige of Parliament in the country than anything else.

I wish to make my position perfectly clear, I cast my vote the other day because I believed that the principle of equal pay was the right one, and I find it difficult to understand why it should be inappropriate upon a Bill which has to do with education—