§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Wales, for the latest available 12-month period, what is the total number of non-teaching staff employed in each local education authority in Wales; and what were the figures in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. Michael RobertsI regret that figures relating to individual education authorities are not available to me. For Wales as a whole average numbers of non-teaching staff have been:
1975–76 24,406 1976–77 23,923 1977–78 23,510 1978–79 23,434 1979–80* 23,403 * Provisional