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Burnham Committee

Volume 79: debated on Tuesday 21 May 1985

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37.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a further statement on his plans to re-constitute the Burnham committee.

I plan to complete a review of the teachers' panel of the Burnham primary and secondary committee before the end of this calendar year. I cannot anticipate its possible outcome.

38.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science by what date he has requested the teachers' unions to supply him with the total number of their paid-up members as part of his current review of the composition of the teachers' panel of the Burnham committee.

The teacher associations have been asked to provide a statement of the number of their fully paid-up and relevant members by 30 June 1985.

40.

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will refer to an independent body his proposed review of the composition of the teachers' panel of the Burnham committee.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to a question from the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East (Mr. Freud) on 14 May at column 106.