To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will instigate an experimental period of payment for teachers who undertake training during holiday periods.

My right hon. Friend agrees with the interim advisory committee's view that it would not be helpful to distinguish training which takes place within the 1,265 hours from training which takes place outside directed time.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will estimate the increase in cost of paying teachers for holiday training periods during the 1990–91 school year.

If such payments were made available, the cost would depend on a variety of factors including the amounts of holiday training undertaken and the extent to which it replaced the training currently undertaken in directed time, as well as rates of pay. Given these variables, an estimate is impossible.