asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what reply he has sent to the letter he received from Dr. A. J. Mount, president of the Hull Association of University Teachers, requesting an independent committee of inquiry into academic and related salaries.

I am sending Dr. Mount and others who have written to me on the subject a statement of the Government's position on university teachers' pay. That makes it clear that the request of the Association of University Teachers for an independent committee of inquiry falls to be considered with the university employers in committee A in the first instance.