§ Mr. StunellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many vacancies for teachers there were in the Hazel Grove constituency in(a) 1992, (b) 1997 and (c) 2001. [156176]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information requested above is not held centrally. The number of vacancies for teachers in the maintained sector for Stockport LEA were as follows:
January 1992 1997 2000 Maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools 0 1 6 Maintained special schools 1— 0 1 Total 0 1 7 Vacancy rate (percentage) 0.0 0.1 0.3 1 Not available The latest year for which published data are currently available is 2000.
In 1992, vacancy figures were collected for the maintained nursery, primary and secondary sector only.
The number of regular teachers (excluding short-term supply) in the maintained schools sector in England at January 2000 was 404,600, the highest for ten years and 6,900 higher than January 1998.
There was a growth of 2,300 in the number of people recruited to train to be teachers between 1999–2000 and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.
From April 2001 new graduate recruits can expect to earn £17,000 a year (up 6 per cent. from the previous year) and starting salaries in Inner London will rise to £20,000 (up 9 per cent. from the previous year).