Mr. RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teaching vacancies are unfilled in(a) Gloucestershire and (b) England; and if he will make a statement. [140285]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 24 November 2000]: There were 26 vacancies (0.7 per cent.) for qualified teachers in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special sector in Gloucestershire in January 2000. The equivalent figure for England was 2,910 vacancies (0.8 per cent.).
The number of regular teachers in maintained schools increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000.
A DfEE survey of maintained secondary schools in England in the first week of September 2000 indicated that there were about 1,000 secondary teacher vacancies; the equivalent figure at January 2000 was 1,200.