Foreign Language Teachers

HC Deb 07 December 1987 vol 124 cc11-2W

Sir Fergus Montgomery

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many native Spanish speakers are currently teaching Spanish in maintained schools;

(2) how many teachers of French nationality are currently teaching French in maintained schools;

(3) how many teachers of German nationality are currently teaching German in maintained schools.

Mrs. Rumbold

I regret that the information is not available in the form requested. In maintained schools in England in 1984 there were 1,834, 19,694 and 5,890 teachers of, respectively, Spanish, French and German. It is not known how many of these were of Spanish, French or German nationality or were native speakers of those languages. There are also 163 Spanish, 1,760 French and 481 German language assistants currently in England and Wales, most of whom are teaching in maintained schools and are native speakers.