HC Deb 08 March 1976 vol 907 cc57-8W
Mr. Cormack

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many qualified teachers were employed in State nursery, primary and secondary schools at the latest available date.

Mr. Gerry Fowler

The number of qualified teachers—full-time and the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers—employed in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England and Wales on 30th September 1975 was 452,564.

which his Department, and its subordinate agencies, have currently available for different purposes requiring completion by members of the general public; when the necessity for each such form was last reviewed; and whether he intends to reduce the number of such forms and to simplify their contents.

Mr. Mulley

None of the forms used by my Department is available to the public at large.

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