§ Mr. Viggersasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to how many teachers were employed, and pupils were enrolled in (a) secondary schools and (b) primary schools in the county of Hampshire in each of the last 10 years, and to the teacher-pupil ratio in each case for each year.
§ Mr. Dunn[pursuant to his reply, 16 July 1986]: The number of pupils and qualified teachers in maintained 657W primary and secondary schools and the pupil-teacher ratio within each type of school in each year between 1976 and 1985 are given below.
Hampshire Maintained primary schools (including middle deemed primary) Maintained secondary schools (including middle deemed secondary) January Teachers Pupils PTR Teachers Pupils PTR 1976 6,051 152,098 25.1 6,423 107,453 16.7 1977 5,972 149,822 25.1 6,637 111,437 16.8 1978 5,886 146,416 24.9 6,762 113,657 16.8 1979 6,007 147,590 24.6 6,769 113,328 16.7 1980 5,979 142,712 23.9 6,636 112,133 16.9 1981 5,593 136,611 24.4 6,424 111,331 17.3 1982 5,358 130,912 24.4 6,324 109,556 17.3 1983 5,200 124,814 24.0 6,349 107,912 17.0 1984 5,047 121,294 24.0 6,153 104,964 17.1 1985 4,972 119,768 24.1 5,846 100,302 17.2