HC Deb 11 April 1989 vol 150 cc428-33W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will publish tables giving the most detailed information available, for England and Wales and by local authority, of the number of persons, full and part-time, other than fully qualified teachers, employed in schools including nursery schools and classes, breaking down the figures by nature of responsibilities undertaken and with an estimate of the full year salary costs and of average earnings per employee, at the latest available date;

(2) what information is collected, and what studies have been made, concerning the number, qualifications and responsibilities of people employed in schools other than fully qualified teachers.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

[holding answer 7 April 1989]: The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy publication "Education Statistics 1988–89 Estimates", a copy of which is in the Library, shows, separately for each respondent local education authority and for primary (including nursery), secondary and special schools, estimated full-time equivalent numbers of and associated expenditure per full-time equivalent pupil on support staff, premises related staff, administrative and clerical staff and mid-day supervisory assistants. It also shows for each authority estimated numbers of unqualified teachers and of school meals service staff broken down into organisers and clerical staff, mid-day supervisors and kitchen and canteen staff. Staff numbers are not broken down into full time and part time.

The Department collects information by local education authority on the number of student teachers and instructors in schools. The figures for January 1988 are set out in table 1. Local education authorities make returns to the Department of the Environment of their spending on non-teaching staff in schools. Table 2 sets out for 1986–87, the latest year for which firm data are available, spending by LEA on educational support staff, adminstrative and clerical staff and manual staff and on school meals staff. Information on average earnings per employee is not available.

No other information is collected, and no specific studies have been made, of the number and characteristics of persons employed in schools other than qualified teachers. The information given above is for England only: information for Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.

Student teachers Instructors
LEA Full time Part lime Total FTE Full time Part time Total FTE
Haringey 2 2.0
Harrow 10 30 19.3
Havering 26 50 43.3
Hillingdon 13 13.0
Hounslow 5 53 20.8
Kingston 9 3.1
Newham 39 6 42.7
Redbridge 17 10 22.3
Richmond 42 7.1
Sutton 4 3 6.1
Waltham Forest 40 10 46.3
ILEA 1 1.0 154 1,094 391.7
Birmingham 8 9 12.3
Coventry 14 76 50.7
Dudley 12 3 13.6
Sandwell 6 6 9.3
Solihull 9 14 13.9
Walsall 2 2 3.3
Wolverhampton 1 6 3.5
Knowsley 1 2 2.9
Liverpool 25 10.4
St. Helens 2.0 4 2 5.3
Sefton 3 14 8.7
Wirral 2 0.6
Bolton 11 12 17.4
Bury 4 3 5.1
Manchester 27 11 31.8
Oldham 7 2 8.0
Rochdale 5 5.0
Salford 1 2 1.6
Stockport 5 3 6.9
Tameside
Trafford 2 9 4.7
Wigan 13 1 13.2
Barnsley 1 2 1.3
Doncaster 14 9 18.5
Rotherham 15 12 19.8
Sheffield 13 11 18.5
Bradford 19 9 27.0
Calderdale 8 3 10.0
Kirklees 27 21 36.8
Leeds 1 1.0 9 34 31.1
Wakefield 9 2 9.8
Gateshead 32 14.1
Newcastle upon Tyne 2 2 2.8
North Tyneside 5 31 12.0
South Tyneside 8 8.0
Sunderland 8 3 9.5
Avon 2 10 7.6
Bedfordshire 25 27 36.5
Berkshire 17 26 27.6
Buckinghamshire 12 14 17.2
Cambrideshire 9 18 17.3
Cheshire 54 9 57.5 2 69 12.3
Cleveland 10 26 23.1
Cornwall 14 20 21.1
Cumbria 7 11 10.4
Derbyshire 14 14 18.9
Devon 8 30 17.5
Dorset 1 23 9.0
Durham 40 11 43.7
East Sussex 12 16 16.7
Essex 123 172 171.0
Gloucestershire 5 8 6.8
Hampshire 1 1 1.2 49 88 85.4
Hereford and Worcester 10 4 11.7
Hertfordshire 43 76 73.7
Humberside 7 31 23.0
Isle of Wight 1 3 1.9
Kent 26 40 42.8
Lancashire 5 31 18.1
Leicestershire 20 24 31.0
Lincolnshire 5 28 18.6
Norfolk 44 23 56.1
North Yorkshire 12 47 30.0
Northamptonshire 34 36 48.0
Northumberland 8 4.3
Student teachers Instructors
LEA Full time Part time Total FTE Full time Part time Total FTE
Nottinghamshire 23 1 23.7
Oxfordshire 1 37 16.1
Shropshire 10 44 18.1
Somerset 5 1 5.1
Staffordshire 38 8 41.8
Suffolk 13 24 25.7
Surrey 7 17 14.9
Warwickshire 11 27 19.8
West Sussex 12 11 19.1
Wiltshire 8 8 10.8
England 84 10 87.7 1,350 2,974 2,317.9
Table 2
Expenditure on salaries and wages1 1986–87 financial year
LEA Schools Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Special School Meals
Educational Support Staff2 Administrative and Clerical Stqff3 Manual Staff4 All Staff
£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000
Barking 1,118 671 1,907 1,439
Barnet 2,575 1,049 3,393 2,475
Bexley 573 764 2,710 1,013
Brent 2,551 635 4,002 3,836
Bromley 1,218 850 2,198 1,668
Croydon 1,359 1,183 3,260 2,610
Ealing 2,608 1,093 3,017 1,372
Enfield 2,077 870 2,918 1,912
Haringey 3,584 906 3,668 3,388
Harrow 1,633 747 2,559 1,002
Havering 1,255 884 3,031 1,833
Hillingdon 1,287 1,646 3,188 1,388
Hounslow 2,192 820 2,325 1,968
Kingston-upon-Thames 490 754 1,056 917
Merton 821 454 858 310
Newham n/a n/a n/a n/a
Redbridge 843 1,072 2,546 1,473
Richmond-upon-Thames 848 288 1,227 907
Sutton 788 661 1,485 1,108
Waltham Forest 2,436 1,131 3,191 1,973
ILEA 32,962 28,499 65,565 30,930
Birmingham 9,577 2,850 9,508 11,227
Coventry 341 1,554 4,247 2,861
Dudley 1,507 1,113 1,807 1,941
Sandwell 2,965 925 3,268 2,433
Solihull 1,564 553 1,408 1,586
Walsall 1,952 1,789 4,703 3,355
Wolverhampton 2,799 785 3,235 2,234
Knowsley 1,050 586 2,423 2,468
Liverpool 3,073 1,476 8,889 4,229
St. Helens 1,207 598 2,050 2,393
Sefton 1,373 794 2,797 2,900
Wirral 1,299 959 3,263 2,847
Bolton 1,789 642 2,760 2,703
Bury 1,007 415 1,495 1,674
Manchester 5,031 1,786 6,547 7,645
Oldham 1,766 649 1,954 2,438
Rochdale 1,420 906 2,833 2,642
Salford 1,939 762 2,861 2,400
Stockport 1,385 950 2,357 2,603
Tameside 2,086 725 2,033 2,878
Trafford 831 514 2,102 1,296
Wigan 1,398 1,129 3,565 2,978
Barnsley 1,461 775 2,368 2,695
Doncaster 1,834 911 3,768 3,942
Rotherham 1,325 762 2,507 2,849
Sheffield 5,425 1,544 6,492 6,547
Bradford 4,412 1,194 5,544 4,184
Calderdale 1,221 393 1,591 2,179
Kirklees 2,583 1,085 4,013 4,543
Leeds 4,629 2,184 7,257 7,589
Wakefield 2,166 728 3,198 3721
Gateshead 1,243 636 2,153 1,858
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 2,904 938 2,870 3,647
North Tyneside 1,567 673 2,047 2,092
LEA Schools Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Special School Meals
Educational Support Staff2 Administrative and Clerical Staff2 Manual Staff4 All Staff
£'000 £'000 £'000 £'000
South Tyneside 1,097 335 1,501 1,672
Sunderland 2,585 821 2,716 3,346
Avon 5,305 3,021 7,523 8,770
Bedfordshire 3,149 2,151 4,711 4,798
Berkshire 3,759 2,333 7,641 2,537
Buckinghamshire 4,766 2,016 6,352 2,961
Cambridgeshire 3,557 1,852 5,264 3,613
Cheshire 7,224 3,196 9,382 9,103
Cleveland 4,540 1,741 6,286 7,827
Cornwall 2,296 965 3,518 3,222
Cumbria 2,957 1,139 4,782 4,865
Derbyshire 8,623 1,640 8,823 11,136
Devon 3,717 1,880 7,147 6,751
Dorset 2,000 1,518 5,332 1,353
Durham 3,666 1,125 7,520 6,302
East Sussex 2,709 2,245 4,211 4,278
Essex 6,307 4,610 13,098 10,710
Gloucestershire 2,491 1,495 3,546 2,873
Hampshire 2,005 9,363 13,637 9,623
Hereford and Worcester 1,907 1,766 5,700 302
Hertfordshire 5,962 3,589 9,172 8,400
Humberside 5,823 2,066 2,961 10,240
Isle of Wight 806 417 1,166 735
Kent 5,186 5,058 7,275 10,275
Lancashire 6,032 3,957 12,227 13,511
Leicestershire 5,503 2,945 8,685 7,592
Lincolnshire 2,888 1,314 3,463 2,404
Norfolk 4,022 1,592 4,795 4,703
North Yorkshire 3,014 2,089 5,484 5,212
Northamptonshire 2,273 2,348 4,987 4,450
Northumberland 1,580 620 3,416 3,339
Nottinghamshire 7,285 3,005 10,734 9,717
Oxfordshire 3,849 1,426 4,517 2,817
Salop 1,812 1,189 3,684 3,350
Somerset 2,242 1,364 3,163 3,705
Staffordshire 6,729 3,229 9,677 6,642
Suffolk 2,511 1,772 4,288 3,720
Surrey 2,389 3,623 7,025 6,336
Warwickshire 2,802 1,379 3,266 3,281
West Sussex 2,2391 1,744 4,747 3,302
Wiltshire 2,022 1,448 5,014 3,083
England Total 295,899 171,524 486,435 401955

Notes:

1 The figures quotes are based on LEA returns to DoE on Form RO1

2 Nursery assistants, nurses and medical staff, laboratory, workshop and technology assistants and techicians employed in schools.

3 Clerks, typsists, receptionists and telephonists who look after the administrative needs of the education service.

4 Caretakers, cleamers and midday supervisory assistants.