§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list by(a) county and (b) local education authority the number of teacher vacancies to date; and if he will show this figure also as a percentage.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthNumbers of vacancies in January 1989 for full-time permanent teachers in maintained schools in England are given in the table.
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Full-time permanent teacher vacancies in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools—England, January 1989 Local Education authority/region Number of vacancies As a percentage of teachers in post Gateshead 31 1.8 Newcastle upon Tyne 50 2.3 North Tyneside 0 0.0 South Tyneside 0 0.0 Sunderland 13 0.5 Cleveland 12 0.2 Cumbria 22 0.6 Durham 15 0.3 Northumberland 11 0.4 North 154 0.6 Barnsley 5 0.3 Doncaster 22 0.8 Rotherham 32 1.4 Sheffield 12 0.3 Bradford 28 0.6 Calderdale 20 1.2 Kirklees 30 0.9 Leeds 61 1.0 Wakefield 70 2.6 Humberside 29 0.4 North Yorks 46 0.9 York and Humberside 355 0.9 Knowsley 10 0.6 Liverpool 20 0.4 St. Helens 9 0.5 Sefton 3 0.1 Wirral 19 0.7 Bolton 11 0.5 Bury 14 1.0 Manchester 55 1.4 Oldham 7 0.3 Rochdale 33 1.7 Salford 58 2.8 Stockport 14 0.6 Tameside 38 2.1 Trafford 9 0.6 Wigan 9 0.3 Cheshire 24 0.3 Lancashire 193 1.8 North West 526 1.0 Derbyshire 76 1.0 Leicestershire 44 0.6 Lincolnshire 52 1.2 Northamptonshire 10 0.2
Local Education authority/region Number of vacancies As a percentage of teachers in post Nottinghamshire 108 1.3 East Midlands 290 0.9 Birmingham 188 2.2 Coventry 24 0.9 Dudley 48 1.9 Sandwell 25 0.9 Solihull 27 1.6 Walsall 4 0.2 Wolverhampton 24 1.0 Hereford and Worcester 50 1.0 Shropshire 13 0.4 Staffordshire 50 0.6 Warwickshire 31 0.8 West Midlands 484 1.1 Cambridgeshire 39 0.8 Norfolk 31 0.6 Suffolk 36 0.8 East Anglia 106 0.7 Barking 51 4.0 Bamet 85 3.9 Bexley 31 1.9 Brent 32 1.6 Bromley 10 0.6 Croydon 39 1.7 Ealing 116 5.5 Enfield 72 3.6 Haringey 128 8.5 Harrow 16 1.2 Havering 51 2.7 Hillingdon 58 3.5 Hounslow 24 1.5 Kingston 9 0.9 Merton 47 4.1 Newham 194 8.2 Redbridge 36 2.3 Richmond 1 0.1 Sutton 21 1.9 Waltham Forest 75 4.2 ILEA 1,028 6.5 South East Greater London 2,124 4.3 Bedfordshire 117 2.8 Berkshire 91 1.7 Buckinghamshire 73 1.6 East Sussex 74 1.9 Essex 123 1.1 Hampshire 134 1.3 Hertfordshire 109 1.4 Isle of Wight 0 0.0 Kent 224 2.1 Oxfordshire 9 0.3 Surrey 131 2.2 West Sussex 74 1.7 Other South East 1,159 1.6 Avon 21 0.3 Cornwall 47 1.4 Devon 122 1.9 Dorset 11 0.3 Gloucestershire 0 0.0 Somerset 73 2.4 Wiltshire 68 1.7 South West 342 1.1 Total England 5,540 1.5