§ Mr. EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many vacant teacher posts there were in schools run by Lancashire education authority in(a) 1997, (b) 1998, (c) 1999,(d) 2000 and (e) 2001. [153157]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information requested is shown in table 42 of Statistics of Education, Teachers, England and Wales, 2000 edition, which is available in the House of Commons Library. Lancashire was split into three local authorities from 1 April 1998: Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool.
Information on vacancies in 2001 is not yet available.
The number of regular teachers in maintained schools in England increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000.
There was a growth of more than 2,000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999–2000 and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.