§ Mr. Milneasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish a list of the pupil/teacher ratio in each of the county council education areas in England to the latest available date and the position for a comparative period in 1964.
§ Miss BaconThe following is the answer.
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PUPIL/TEACHER RATIOS IN MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS [...]taking account of both qualified and unqualified teachers and of the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers) January 1964 1968 Bedfordshire 24.0 23.5 Berkshire 23.9 23.0 Buckinghamshire 23.4 22.0 Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely 22.7 22.0 Cheshire 24.9 24.5 Cornwall 23.6 22.9 Cumberland 22.7 21.6 Derbyshire 24.1 23.2 Devon 23.7 23.4 Dorset 23.1 22.7 Durham 25.0 24.3 Essex 24.3 23.8 Gloucestershire 24.1 23.2 Hampshire 24.9 23.3 Herefordshire 22.5 21.5 Hertfordshire 22.8 21.5 Huntingdon and Peterborough 23.2 22.8 Isle of Wight 22.1 22.5 Isles of Scilly 17.3 11.8 Kent 23.8 23.5 Lancashire 24.1 23.9 Leicestershire 24.6 24.0 Lincolnshire—Holland 23.1 21.8 Lincolnshire—Kesteven 23.0 23.0
January 1964 1968 Lincolnshire—Lindsey 23.3 22.6 Norfolk 21.7 21.7 Northamptonshire 24.2 23.6 Northumberland 24.6 24.2 Nottinghamshire 24.5 24.0 Oxfordshire 23.7 23.0 Rutland 23.7 22.5 Shropshire 23.5 22.8 Somerset 23.7 23.1 Staffordshire 24.5 23.1 Suffolk—East 22.1 21.2 Suffolk—West 21.7 20.8 Surrey 23.1 22.2 Sussex—East 22.9 22.7 Sussex—West 23.8 23.5 Warwickshire 23.7 22.6 Westmorland 21.0 21.0 Wiltshire 23.2 22.5 Worcestershire 24.5 24.2 Yorkshire—East Riding 21.6 22.2 Yorkshire—North Riding 25.3 24.4 Yorkshire—West Riding 24.6 24.2