Teachers (Pay and Conditions)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 April 1987.

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Photo of Mr Harry Greenway Mr Harry Greenway , Ealing North 12:00, 28 April 1987

Will my right hon. Friend accept that it was the divisions between the teacher unions and the outdated majority voting system that killed stone dead the Burnham committee on teachers' pay and conditions? Will he accept that there is an urgent need for a post-interim advisory committee on teachers' pay and conditions to he set up as soon as possible and that it will have to he different from the previous Burnham committee, for example, in not having a majority voting system?