HC Deb 03 December 1998 vol 321 cc244-6W
Mrs. May

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teacher vacancies there were in(a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools at the latest date for which information is available by each local education authority. [62304]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The information requested is shown in the table.

Teacher vacancies1 in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools by LEA: and Government Office region: January 1998
England Nursery and Primary Secondary
Gateshead 3 1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3 2
North Tyneside 0 0
South Tyneside 0 2
Sunderland 7 7
Hartlepool 3 1
Middlesbrough 5 6
Redcar and Cleveland 1 9
Stockton on Tees 3 6
Durham 11 7
Darlington 3 4
Northumberland 0 0
North East 39 45
Cumbria 1 1
Cheshire 25 14
Bolton 0 2
Bury 0 1
Manchester 0 0
Oldham 10 3
Rochdale 10 2
Salford 0 0
Stockport 0 0
Tameside 2 4
Trafford 0 2
Wigan 5 0
Lancashire 27 9
North West 80 38
Knowsley 6 7
Liverpool 0 4
St. Helens 1 4

Teacher vacancies1 in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools by LEA: and Government Office region: January 1998
England Nursery and Primary Secondary
Sefton 0 0
Wirral 4 10
Merseyside 11 25
City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 0 1
East Riding of Yorkshire 1 0
North East Lincolnshire 1 1
North Lincolnshire 2 0
North Yorkshire 8 8
York 0 0
Barnsley 2 5
Doncaster 0 0
Rotherham 0 0
Sheffield 14 6
Bradford 14 34
Calderdale 11 3
Kirklees 0 6
Leeds 16 9
Wakefield 0 0
Yorkshire and The Humber 69 73
Derbyshire 25 13
Derby 6 4
Leicestershire 2 9
Leicester City 5 7
Rutland 1 1
Lincolnshire 37 21
Northamptonshire 1 2
Nottinghamshire 0 0
East Midlands 77 57
Hereford and Worcester 1 6
Shropshire 1 0
Staffordshire 13 8
Stoke 10 8
Warwickshire 11 1
Birmingham 7 30
Coventry 4 3
Dudley 5 9
Sandwell 8 7
Solihull 3 4
Walsall 15 21
Wolverhampton 2 6
West Midlands 80 103
Cambridgeshire 1 6
Norfolk 19 11
Suffolk 8 14
Bedfordshire 11 12
Luton 7 16
Essex 56 46
Herefordshire 31 36
Eastern 133 141
City 0 0
Camden 12 2
Greenwich 31 22
Hackney 51 9
Hammersmith and Fulham 35 12
Islington 27 15
Kensington and Chelsea 17 3
Lambeth 6 6
Lewisham 31 18
Southwark 54 6
Tower Hamlets 52 13
Wandsworth 29 5
Westminster 13 4
Barking 10 7
Barnet 8 14
Bexley 1 5
Brent 20 8

Teacher vacancies1 in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools by LEA: and Government Office region: January 1998
England Nursery and Primary Secondary
Bromley 11 4
Croydon 8 5
Ealing 17 30
Enfield 11 6
Haringey 20 10
Harrow 9 2
Havering 0 15
Hillingdon 15 13
Hounslow 8 14
Kingston-upon-Thames 5 1
Merton 7 0
Newham 61 21
Redbridge 7 10
Richmond-upon-Thames 2 1
Sutton 4 5
Waltham Forest 43 4
London 625 290
Berkshire 0 5
Buckinghamshire 10 14
Milton Keynes 5 0
East Sussex 18 11
Brighton and Hove 8 5
Hampshire 38 19
Portsmouth 8 15
Southampton 6 13
Isle of Wight 0 0
Kent 55 34
Oxfordshire 4 3
Surrey 27 14
West Sussex 31 8
South East 210 141
Bath and North East Somerset 5 0
City of Bristol 9 5
North Somerset 5 5
South Gloucestershire 3 4
Cornwall 6 2
Isles of Scilly 0 0
Devon 15 7
Dorset 9 7
Poole 1 2
Bournemouth 0 0
Gloucestershire 3 5
Somerset 1 3
Wiltshire 5 13
Swindon 5 2
South West 67 55
England 1,391 968
1 Vacancies are recorded for posts which are full-time, permanent, are not currently filled by someone on a contract of one term or more and have been advertised. Vacancies for head teacher and deputies are included above.

Source:

Form 618G survey January 1998