Reading delay

January 24, 1997

A private member's bill to establish a General Teaching Council, up for debate in the House of Commons today, looks unlikely to get its second reading because of other items on the list for debate before it. The bill was tabled by Sir Malcolm Thornton, the Conservative chairman of the Commons education select committee.

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