HC Deb 10 December 1968 vol 775 cc103-4W
Mr. Bishop

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will state the number of teachers in maintained primary and secondary schools in 1964 and in 1968, with the percentage variation.

Miss Bacon

Including the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers, there were 300,120 teachers, qualified and unqualified, in maintained primary and secondary schools in England and Wales in October, 1964, and 334,712 in October, 1968, an increase of 11. 5 per cent.