asked the Minister of Education what is the total amount of money paid in remuneration to all categories of the teaching profession who are paid from Treasury or local authority sources; and what proportion this represents of the total public money spent by the nation on education.

On the basis of the revised estimates of local education authorities for the financial year 1949–50, the total estimated expenditure on teachers' salaries in maintained schools and other maintained educational institutions amounted to about £104,723,800, representing about 43 per cent. of the authorities total estimated net expenditure on all Ministry of Education services.