Mr. Jim Callaghanasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the figures for each local education authority in England of the number of teacher in post in September 1979, the estimated number who will be in September of the current year and the number of vacancies each local education authority is taking steps to fill in September.
§ Dr. BoysonFigures given below are of teachers who were being paid by local education authorities in England for services in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools on 28 September 1979. The figures include qualified teachers, student teachers and instructors.674W Part-time teachers are included on a full-time equivalent basis. My Department has no information with which to answer the rest of the question.
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September 1979 England Nursery, primary and secondary schools Barking 1,600 Barnet 2,608 Bexley 2,045 Brent 2,717 Bromley 2,445 Croydon 2,940 Ealing 2,555 Enfield 2,359 Haringey 2,040 Harrow 1,769 Havering 2,385 Hillingdon 2,078 Hounslow 1,994 Kingston-upon-Thames 1,117 Merton 1,455 Newham 2,457 Redbridge 1,825 Richmond-upon-Thames 1,002 Sutton 1,315 Waltham Forest 2,215 Inner London 22,669 Birmingham 10,630 Coventry 3,387 Dudley 2,697 Sandwell 3,341 Solihull 2,238 Walsall 3,103 Wolverhampton 3,049 Knowsley 2,093 Liverpool 5,468 St. Helens 2,035 Sefton 3,005 Wirral 3,186 Bolton 2,730 Bury 1,776 Manchester 5,279 Oldham 2,096 Rochdale 2,314 Salford 2,742 Stockport 2,618 Tameside 2,110 Trafford 2,058 Wigan 3,506 Barnsley 2,344 Doncaster 3,238 Rotherham 2,657 Sheffield 5,294 Bradford 4,785 Calderdale 1,909 Kirklees 3,659 Leeds 6,772 Wakefield 3,124 Gateshead 2,151 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,961 North Tyneside 2,066 South Tyneside 1,771 Sunderland 3,199 Isles of Scilly 24 Avon 7,852 Bedfordshire 5,329 Berkshire 6,243 Buckinghamshire 5,107 Cambridgeshire 5,313 Cheshire 9,062 Cleveland 6,262 Cornwall 3,686 Cumbria 4,683
Derbyshire 8,211 Devon 7,414 Dorset 4,468 Durham 6,051 East Sussex 4,789 Essex 13,303 Gloucestershire 4,617 Hampshire 12,863 Hereford and Worcester 5,715 Hertfordshire 9,676 Humberside 8,891 Isle of Wight 986 Kent 12,894 Lancashire 12,857 Leicestershire 8,325 Lincolnshire 4,852 Norfolk 5,954 North Yorkshire 6,028 Northamptonshire 5,230 Northumberland 2,837 Nottinghamshire 9,323 Oxfordshire 4,541 Salop 3,621 Somerset 3,331 Staffordshire 10,084 Suffolk 5,178 Surrey 8,012 Warwickshire 4,461 West Sussex 4,936 Wiltshire 4,679