There are no interim targets for the delivery of the commitment toreduce class sizes by August 2007, but very good progress continues to be madein training the teachers required to meet our target.We are providing additionalfunds of £18 million to £44 million in 2006 and 2007 for authorities to employadditional teachers. In addition, we will be fully funding around 1,000probationer teachers each year in 2006 and 2007 who can also be used to meetclass contact and class size reductions.In addition, we recentlydecided that a further £14.5 million of central resources would also bedistributed through the National Priorities Action Fund for the employment ofadditional teachers this year over and above previously set employment levels.