HC Deb 11 February 1997 vol 290 cc113-4W
Mr. David Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average age

PRC and Crombie payments
England and Wales £000
1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
Corporation of London 0 0 0 3 3
Camden 0 0 0 0 0
Greenwich 0 0 0 0 0
Hackney 0 0 0 0 0
Hammersmith and Fulham 0 0 0 0 0
Islington 0 0 0 0 0
Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 101 139 161
Lambeth 0 0 134 0 44
Lewisham 0 0 0 449 230
Southwark 0 0 0 0 0
Tower Hamlets 0 0 409 0 847
Wands worth 0 0 0 0 359
Westminster 0 0 0 0 0
Barking and Dagenham 605 290 751 601 635
Barnet 1,344 1,425 1,475 1479 1,731
Bexley 0 0 0 0 0
Brent 0 0 0 0 0
Bromley 981 586 551 557 509
Croydon 248 630 474 443 405
Ealing 861 479 636 1,077 619
Enfield 0 0 705 0 0
Haringey 474 541 583 612 551
Harrow 353 534 397 466 635
Havering 0 0 0 0 0
Hillingdon 0 1 0 0 0
Hounslow 11 208 253 349 405
Kingston upon Thames 304 358 454 428 477
Merton 0 0 0 0 0
Newham 769 269 364 440 489
Redbridge 288 387 405 416 585
Richmond upon Thames 0 0 0 0 0
Suttton 0 0 0 0 212
Waltham Forest 324 5 13 374 0
Birmingham 3,422 3,947 5,443 4,911 4,557
Coventry 12 2,982 2,137 450 2,201
Dudley 884 851 791 995 1,137
Sandwell 0 0 0 0 0
Solihull 0 0 553 575 507
Walsall 0 643 1,567 676 1,945
Wolverhampton 94 195 326 73 165
Knowsley 0 957 945 1,132 1,157
Liverpool 2,727 3,780 3,058 2,684 2,826

of teachers employed (a) in London and (b) in the south-west region in the most recent year for which figures are available. [15423]

Mr. Forth

The average age of teachers employed in the maintained nursery, primary and secondary sector, as at 31 March 1995, was 40 years in Greater London and 42 years in the south-west region.