HC Deb 20 October 1992 vol 212 c264W
12. Mr. Patrick Thompson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what figures he has for the overall vacancy rate for teachers in the two most recent available years.

Mr. Forth

Maintained schools in England had an unfilled vacancy rate of 1.5 per cent. in January 1991, and 0.5 per cent. in January 1992. Numbers of vacancies were 5,222 in 1991 and 1,898 in 1992, a reduction of 63 per cent.