§ Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, for the latest available 12-month period, what is the total number of non-teaching staff employed in each local education authority in England; and what were the figures in each of the past five years.
§ Dr. BoysonThis information is not identified for individual local education authorities in the returns made to central Departments. For all local education authorities in England the average annual figures for non-teaching staff in the past five years are as follows:
Full time equivalents, years ending March 1975–76 … … … 410,242 1976–77 … … … 409,328 1977–78 … … … 404,468 1978–79 … … … 404,380 1979–80 … … … 402,479