§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each local education authority(a) if it has an early retire teachers and (b) if such a scheme has been terminated, the last year of its operation. [123111]
§ Mr. WicksThe framework within which local education authorities can offer early retirement to teachers is contained in the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997(as amended). It is a matter for each local education authority to determine how best to make use of these arrangements in the light of local circumstances. No information is held centrally on the early retirement policies of individual local education authorities, but our records show that in 1998–99 all local education authorities, with the exception of the City of London and the Isles of Scilly, granted some early retirements.
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each local education authority the(a) minimum age at which a teacher can be offered an early retirement package and (b) maximum enhancement that can be offered to individual teachers. [123112]
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§ Mr. WicksThe provisions governing the early retirement arrangements for teachers are contained in the Teachers (Compensation for Redundancy and Premature Retirement) Regulations 1997 (as amended). The earliest age at which a teacher can be offered early retirement is 50; and the maximum enhancement payable is 10 years. These provisions apply to all local education authorities.
§ Mr. DrewTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many male teachers are still working at age 65 and female teachers at age 60 years in each local education authority as a percentage of the teachers employed by the local education authority. [123114]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe number and percentage of teachers in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special sector in England at March 1998 (provisional) are contained in the following table:
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Teachers aged 65 and over Men percentage aged 65 and over Teachers aged 60 and over Women Percentage aged 60 and over City of London 0 0 0 0 Camden 0 0 20 2.2 Greenwich 0 0 16 1.3 Hackney1 1 0.3 14 1.8 Hammersmith and Fulham 2 0.8 8 1.4 Islington 0 0 7 0.8 Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 8 2.5 Lambeth 0 0 24 2.5 Lewisham1 0 0 7 0.6 Southwark 1 0.3 14 1.5 Tower Hamlets 0 0 14 1.5 Wandsworth 1 0.2 20 1.9 Westminster 1 0.3 11 1.5 Barking and Dagenham 0 0 7 0.8 Barnet 2 0.3 28 1.7 Bexley 2 0.4 9 0.8 Brent 0 0 23 1.9 Bromley 0 0 21 1.5 Croydon 2 0.3 32 1.9 Ealing 1 0.2 13 0.9 Enfield 0 0 14 0.8 Haringey 2 0.4 18 1.5 Harrow 0 0 14 1.5 Havering 0 0 21 1.8 Hillingdon 0 0 9 0.7 Hounslow 0 0 16 1.2 Kingston upon Thames 0 0 9 1.4 Thames 0 0 9 1.4 Merton 0 0 7 0.9 Newham 0 0 9 0.7 Redbridge 0 0 16 1.2 Richmond upon Thames 0 0 1 0.2 Sutton 0 0 7 0.8 Waltham Forest 0 0 20 1.6 Birmingham 1 2— 50 0.8 Coventry 1 0.1 23 1.3 Dudley 0 0 11 0.6 Sandwell 0 0 9 0.6 Solihull 1 0.2 2 0.2 Walsall 0 0 10 0.7 Wolverhampton 0 0 8 0.6 Knowsley 0 0 6 0.6 Liverpool 0 0 36 1.3 St. Helens 1 0.2 9 0.9 Sefton 1 0.1 15 0.9
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Teachers aged 65 and over Men percentage aged 65 and over Teachers aged 60 and over Women Percentage aged 60 and over Wirral 0 0 8 0.4 Bolton 0 0 9 0.6 Bury 2 0.5 6 0.7 Manchester 2 0.2 37 1.5 Oldham 1 0.1 10 0.7 Rochdale 0 0 7 0.6 Salford 0 0 7 0.5 Stockport 0 0 10 0.7 Tameside 0 0 12 1.0 Trafford 0 0 19 1.5 Wigan 1 0.1 7 0.4 Barnsley 0 0 4 0.4 Doncaster 0 0 8 0.5 Rotherham 1 0.1 9 0.6 Sheffield 0 0 14 0.6 Bradford 0 0 19 0.7 Calderdale 0 0 7 0.7 Kirklees 0 0 12 0.6 Leeds 0 0 25 0.7 Wakefield 1 0.1 5 0.3 Gateshead 0 0 4 0.4 Newcastle upon Tyne 0 0 11 0.8 North Tyneside 0 0 5 0.5 South Tyneside 1 0.2 10 1.2 Sunderland 0 0 15 0.9 Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 Bath and North East Somerset 0 0 5 0.6 City of Bristol 0 0 8 0.5 North Somerset 1 0.2 7 0.8 South Gloucestershire 0 0 5 0.4 Hartlepool 0 0 1 0.2 Middlesbrough 0 0 10 1.1 Redcar and Cleveland 1 0.3 2 0.2 Stockton on Tees 0 0 7 0.6 City of Kingston-upon-Hull 0 0 7 0.6 East Riding of Yorkshire 1 0.1 7 0.5 North East Lincolnshire 0 0 3 0.4 North Lincolnshire 0 0 4 0.5 North Yorkshire 0 0 19 0.8 York 0 0 5 0.7 Bedfordshire 1 0.1 24 1.1 Luton 1 0.2 11 1.1 Buckinghamshire 0 0 27 1.1 Milton Keynes 0 0 7 0.6 Derbyshire 0 0 15 0.5 City of Derby 0 0 10 0.8 Dorset 0 0 7 0.4 Poole 0 0 2 0.3 Bournemouth 0 0 8 1.3 Durham 0 0 22 0.8 Darlington 0 0 4 0.8 East Sussex 0 0 18 0.9 Brighton and Hove 0 0 11 1.3 Hampshire 0 0 39 0.7 Portsmouth 0 0 7 0.8 Southampton 0 0 10 1.0 Leicestershire 0 0 22 0.8 Leicester City 0 0 8 0.5 Rutland 0 0 1 0.7 Staffordshire 0 0 31 0.8
Teachers aged 65 and over Men Percentage aged 65 and over Teachers aged 60 and over Women Percentage aged 60 and over Stoke-on-Trent 0 0 7 0.6 Wiltshire 0 0 17 0.9 Swindon 0 0 6 0.7 Berkshire 0 0 52 1.3 Cambridgeshire 1 0.1 11 0.3 Cheshire 0 0 32 0.6 Cornwall 0 0 23 1.1 Cumbria 1 0.1 7 0.3 Devon 0 0 29 0.6 Essex 2 0.1 82 1.0 Gloucestershire 1 0.1 16 0.6 Hereford and Worcester 0 0 13 0.4 Hertfordshire 3 0.1 52 0.9 Isle of Wight 0 0 7 1.2 Kent 1 2— 94 1.2 Lancashire 0 0 37 0.5 Lincolnshire 1 0.1 22 0.7 Norfolk 1 0.1 36 1.0 Northamptonshire 0 0 10 0.3 Northumberland 0 0 6 0.4 Nottinghamshire1 1 2— 24 0.5 Oxfordshire 0 0 21 0.8 Shropshire 0 0 13 0.6 Somerset 0 0 15 0.7 Suffolk 0 0 22 0.7 Surrey 2 0.1 57 1.1 Warwickshire 1 0.1 9 0.4 West Sussex 1 0.1 33 1.0 England 50 2— 2,043 0.8 11997 figures are shown for Hackney, Lewisham and Nottinghamshire due to incomplete annual returns in 1998. 2means percentage is less than 0.05 per cent.