§ Mr. EvennettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford of 8 May,Official Report, column 299, if he will now publish a table based on the 1987 database of teacher records data showing the distribution of teachers across the salary scales at March 1987, distinguishing between primary and secondary sectors; whether the numbers of teachers in each sector on scale 3, scale 4 or senior teacher scales agrees with the projections made by his Department based on the March 299W 1985 database of teacher records data for the purposes of salary assimilation in September 1987; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Rumbold[holding answer 14 June 1989]: The information is as follows:
Distribution of teachers by salary scale: March 1987 Nursery and primary schools1 Secondary schools1 Scale 1 55,920 — 59,120 — Scale 2 63,240 — 59,470 — Scale 3 14,360 (16,000) 56,490 (53,000 Scale 4 300 (0) 29,950 (28,500) Senior teacher 50 (0) 7,280 (6,500) Deputy head 18,680 — 10,310 — Head 21,740 — 4,990 — TOTAL 174,280 — 227,610 — 1 The figures in brackets are the numbers forecast in 1987 on the basis of the 1985 database of teacher records.