asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will take steps to ensure the executive and professional register receives notification of full and part-time teaching vacancies from local education authorities.

I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that, whilst every encouragement is given to local education authorities and indeed all organisations in either the public or private sectors to make full use of the recruitment services offered by Professional and Executive Recruitment (PER) and the public employment service in general, it is not intended to introduce compulsory notification of vacancies for particular sectors or occupations. So far as the teaching profession is concerned, PER informs all individuals who inquire about teaching posts of the ways in which such vacancies are usually filled.