§ Mr. Hancockasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to how many teachers employed specifically to teach art there are in each local education authority.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe information requested is not held centrally. Information for England as a whole is available from a staffing survey carried out by the Department in 1984 among a sample of maintained secondary schools. It is estimated from this survey that some 23,000 full-time and 3,000 part-time teachers had art as a subject forming part of a qualification above A-level. Some 16,000 full-time teachers were teaching art. Not all of them had the subject as part of a qualification above A-level, but those who did not were providing only about 5 per cent. of tuition in art. Some teachers of art were teaching others subjects as well.