Teachers (Recruitment)

HC Deb 26 April 1956 vol 551 c161W

38. Mr. Swingler

asked the Minister of Education the net gain in each of the years 1950 to 1955 in the recruitment of teachers in England and Wales.

Sir D. Eccles

The net increase in the number of teachers in maintained primary and secondary schools (other than special schools) was, during the calendar year:

1950	6,900
1951	6,000
1952	5,600
1953	6,100
1954	7,600
1955	(estimated) 7,300