I can only trust that he is in South Wales. Those teachers who are involved in this injustice will lose at least £600 during the course of their professional career as a result of the withholding of the recognition which is being given to people in other walks of life. Civil servants can take their qualifying examination before they go. Local government officers, as my hon. Friend the Member for West Woolwich (Mr. Berry) has shown, are well pleased with what was done under the Bill. The police and everybody appear to be well catered for, and justice is meted out with regard to superannuation, except in this instance of the young men coming into the teaching profession. We are penalising the young man for being physically fit. If he had flat feet, or poor sight, or poor hearing he could receive f600 additional money. He could go to college and get into school and draw the full pension; but because he is a fit young man and gives a year of his life to the Armed Services, we say that he shall suffer all the way through his professional career.

There is another important point at stake. In promotion to headship in the teaching profession, the length of service in schools is an issue which is always taken into consideration; and it may well be that there will be members of the teaching profession held back and suffering even further loss due to the injustice which is implicit in this legislation. My right hon. Friend the Minister of Education has already proved that he is progressive in his approach to the realm of education. We realise that. In the Second Reading of this Bill he told the House that he agreed with the observations which my hon. Friend had made except one, and the only one with which he disagreed was the alternative suggestion put forward by my hon. Friend as to the way in which this injustice could be put right. Having had from the Government an admission that there is an injustice—that this thing is wrong—surely, we will not have any Minister standing at the Treasury Box today, trying to tell us that, although it is wrong, nothing can be done. We have been sweetly reasonable in our approach to the Government on this question, but apparently that is the wrong line to take with our masters. I see the Financial Secretary looking at me very severely, but he will be aware that the teaching profession feel that once the Government are aware of this injustice, they ought to be prepared to take steps to remove it.

We have embarked on a recruiting campaign for the teaching profession, and we hope to get some of the finest quality into the profession. I am pleased to see that there is already an infusion of the very best type of young man in the profession—but what an advertisement this will be. If they want a square deal they had better join another profession. They had better go into the Civil Service, or into local government, or anything except teaching. I hope that my right hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury will tell us that the expression of opinion put forward by the Minister of Education will be given effect, and that when he said on the Committee stage that further consideration would be given before the Report stage, and he promised on the Second Reading that he would examine this injustice to see if it could be removed, he was not merely giving us sweet words which mean exactly nothing. I hope that the Minister will be prepared to tell us that a further Amendment will be submitted.