HC Deb 24 January 1980 vol 977 cc344-5W
Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he now expects to publish his Department's survey of secondary school teachers undertaken in 1977.

Dr. Boyson

My right hon. and learned Friend expects to publish an interim report on the 1977 secondary school staffing survey in a few weeks' time, and a full report in the summer.

Mr. Marlow

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how the Government ensure that the numbers of teachers trained matches with the potential demand for subjects to be taught.

Dr. Boyson

Local authorities recruit teachers not only from newly qualified teachers emerging from the initial training system but also from former teachers wishing to return; they also make use of the Government's scheme for training and retraining teachers in certain shortage subjects, and may redeploy their existing staff.

Teacher training institutions in the public sector were asked by my Department, following the successive reorganisations of the teacher training system announced in 1975 and 1977, to coordinate on a regional basis, and to sub-

HOUSEHOLDS OWNING VARIOUS DURABLE GOODS: OCTOBER 1978
United Kingdom France Percentage Germany (FR)
Refrigerator* 87 82 97
Freezer* 37 23 55
Washing machine 72 76 88
Motor car 54 67 63
Source: Social Trends No. 10.
* Includes combined fridge-freezers.
Excluding company cars.

Data on televisions and telephones are available only in the following form:

TELEVISIONS AND TELEPHONES PER 100 POPULATION DECEMBER 1977
United Kingdom Germany (FR)
Television* 32 31
Telephone 42 37
Source: Eurostat: "Basic Statistics of the Community".
* Number of licences issued.
† Includes public telephones.

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