§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (i) head teachers, (ii) deputy head teachers and (iii) teachers took early retirement on the grounds of ill health(a) in total and (b) in each local education authority in the financial year 1995–96; and if she will make a statement. [2970]
§ Mrs. GillanThe following table shows the numbers of teachers in service at 31 March 1995 who were awarded ill-health retirement in the financial year 1995–96. The table covers the maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special education sector in England. 631W
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Ill-health retirements in financial year 1995–96 (provisional) Heads Deputies Classroom teachers Corporation of London 0 0 0 Camden 0 * 18 Greenwich * 0 16 Hackney * * 9 Hammersmith and Fulham * 0 16 Islington * * 5 Kensington and Chelsea * 0 8 Lambeth 0 0 16 Lewisham * 0 10 Southwark * 0 13 Tower Hamlets 0 0 8 Wandsworth 0 * 11 Westminster * * 7 Barking and Dagenham * * 6 Barnet * 0 18 Bexley * * 8 Brent 0 * 10 Bromley 7 0 12 Croydon * 0 17 Ealing 0 * 11 Enfield * 0 16 Haringey 6 * 7 Harrow 0 * 13 Havering * * 17 Hillingdon 0 * 9 Hounslow * * 20 Kingston upon Thames * * 12 Merton * * * Newham 0 0 11 Redbridge * 0 7 Richmond upon Thames * 0 8 Sutton 0 * 13 Waltham Forest * * 16 Birmingham 6 9 93 Coventry 0 * 25 Dudley * * 23 Sandwell * * 20 Solihull 0 * 12 Walsall * * 30 Wolverhampton 0 * 19 Knowsley * 0 12 Liverpool * * 40 St. Helens * * 11 Sefton * * 24 Wirral * * 26 Bolton * * 19 Bury * * 17 Manchester * * 34 Oldham * * 18 Rochdale 5 * 26 Salford 0 * 21 Stockport * * 32 Tameside * * 21 Trafford * * 23 Wigan * 5 22 Barnsley 0 5 16 Doncaster * * 24 Rotherham * * 14 Sheffield 6 * 31 Bradford 7 5 37 Calderdale * * 20 Kirklees * * 38 Leeds * 6 70 Wakefield 5 * 40 Gateshead * * 26 Newcastle upon Tyne 0 0 18 North Tyneside * * 9 South Tyneside * * 13 Sunderland * * 32 Avon 12 7 55 Bedfordshire * 5 34 Berkshire * * 54 Buckinghamshire 5 * 41 Cambridgeshire * 5 35 Cheshire 12 7 72 Cleveland 5 11 70 Cornwall 12 7 35
Ill-health retirements in financial year 1995–96 (provisional) Heads Deputies Classroom teachers Cumbria 5 9 33 Derbyshire 14 9 46 Devon 17 9 74 Dorset 6 0 47 Durham 6 11 82 East Sussex 8 * 37 Essex 9 14 107 Gloucestershire 5 * 32 Hampshire 11 12 123 Hereford and Worcester 12 8 58 Hertfordshire * * 71 Humberside 5 13 85 Isle of Wight * 0 15 Kent 26 9 128 Lancashire 24 19 167 Leicestershire 6 5 68 Lincolnshire 9 * 40 Norfolk 16 11 57 North Yorkshire 7 5 37 Northamptonshire 6 5 67 Northumberland 5 * 25 Nottinghamshire 13 8 75 Oxfordshire * * 43 Shropshire 7 * 27 Somerset 15 6 48 Staffordshire 8 11 113 Suffolk 8 * 49 Surrey 7 5 50 Warwickshire 5 * 37 West Sussex 8 * 25 Wiltshire 5 * 38 England 479 374 3,627 In order to avoid sensitive information about individuals being identified, numbers less than five are shown as asterisks.