HC Deb 22 November 1978 vol 958 cc604-5W
Mr. George Rodgers

asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many teachers who successfully completed their training during the last three years have been unable to secure employment as teachers up to the present time.

Mr. Oakes

I have been asked to reply. Information is not available in the form requested. What I am able to say is that of the 5,094 teachers registered in England and Wales in September 1978 as seeking their first teaching appointment, only 435, or just over 8 per cent., had been so registered one year earlier.