§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will produce from information available to her a table showing the distribution by age of the numbers of mathematics, science and modern language graduates at present employed as teachers in primary and secondary schools.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe distribution by age of the number of full-time teachers with a degree in mathematics or science employed in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools at 31st March 1977, the latest date for which information is available, is as follows:
Mathematics Science* Under 25 911 2,385 25–29 2,068 7,660 30–34 1,347 4,484 35–39 938 3,328 40–44 667 2,366 45–49 597 1,787 50–54 430 1,172 55–59 308 772 60–64 193 497 65 and over 8 22 Total 7,467 24,473 * Including agriculture, medicine and technology. Information is not readily available on the age distribution of the 13,598 teachers 786W with a degree in a modern foreign language who were in these schools at the same date.