§ Mr. Radiceasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the pupil-teacher ratios for each local education authority for the most recent year for which figures are available, and for 1983 and 1979.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe pupil-teacher ratios in each local education authority in England in 1979, 1983 and 1986 were as follows:
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Pupil-teacher ratios1 January each year 1979 1983 1986 Barking 17.6 17.5 17.1 Barnet 17.4 16.2 15.7 Bexley 19.2 18.7 18.4 Brent 15.1 14.6 13.8 Bromley 19.2 18.0 18.1 Croydon 18.4 17.2 17.1 Ealing 17.4 16.4 16.2 Enfield 19.5 17.6 17.4 Haringey 17.3 15.2 13.5 Harrow 18.0 16.7 16.6 Havering 19.2 17.9 17.3 Hillingdon 18.8 18.0 18.6 Hounslow 17.7 16.4 16.3 Kingston-upon-Thames 17.9 18.1 16.8 Merton 18.7 17.9 17.3
January each year 1979 1983 1986 Newham 17.3 16.1 15.1 Redbridge 19.1 18.0 17.9 Richmond-upon-Thames 18.6 17.5 17.1 Sutton 19.0 19.2 19.0 Waltham Forest 16.7 15.6 15.0 Inner London 15.3 13.8 13.5 Birmingham 19.1 19.3 17.7 Coventry 18.4 18.0 16.6 Dudley 21.0 18.6 17.6 Sandwell 18.9 17.4 16.8 Solihull 19.2 19.2 18.2 Walsall 18.4 16.9 16.4 Wolverhampton 17.5 16.1 15.9 Knowsley 18.6 17.0 16.0 Liverpool 17.7 17.8 16.4 St. Helens 19.4 18.5 17.2 Sefton 19.6 18.6 18.3 Wirral 19.9 18.6 18.0 Bolton 20.0 18.9 18.1 Bury 19.4 17.9 17.0 Manchester 16.9 17.2 15.8 Oldham 20.7 19.0 17.8 Rochdale 17.9 16.5 16.4 Salford 18.3 17.3 16.8 Stockport 21.1 18.8 18.1 Tameside 19.5 18.5 17.8 Trafford 18.4 18.3 18.6 Wigan 18.3 17.3 16.3 Barnsley 19.1 17.9 17.2 Doncaster 18.6 17.9 17.5 Rotherham 20.0 19.0 17.7 Sheffield 18.7 17.6 16.6 Bradford 17.9 17.7 16.9 Calderdale 19.7 17.9 17.0 Kirklees 19.9 18.5 18.0 Leeds 19.7 18.2 16.9 Wakefield 19.6 19.2 18.6 Gateshead 18.2 17.6 17.0 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 15.9 15.4 15.6 North Tyneside 17.5 16.3 14.7 South Tyneside 17.5 16.4 15.8 Sunderland 19.5 18.5 17.8 Isles of Scilly 13.3 12.8 11.1 Avon 18.9 18.8 18.5 Bedfordshire 18.2 18.8 17.8 Berkshire 19.6 18.6 17.8 Buckinghamshire 20.1 19.5 19.2 Cambridgeshire 19.1 19.6 19.1 Cheshire 19.4 18.6 18.3 Cleveland 19.7 18.0 18.0 Cornwall 19.4 19.0 18.1 Cumbria 19.1 17.9 17.2 Derbyshire 20.2 19.0 17.7 Devon 20.1 19.0 18.4 Dorset 19.3 18.6 18.0 Durham 18.7 18.6 18.6 East Sussex 19.1 18.7 18.5 Essex 19.7 19.7 19.3 Gloucestershire 19.5 19.3 18.6 Hampshire 20.2 19.6 19.0 Hereford and Worcester 19.7 19.4 18.3 Hertfordshire 18.4 17.9 17.9 Humberside 18.5 17.6 17.4 Isle of Wight 19.4 18.4 18.6 Kent 20.0 19.4 19.0 Lancashire 19.6 18.8 18.5 Leicestershire 18.8 18.5 17.6
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Table 1 New JTS-Entrants per week 13 February to 6 March Area Week ending Entrants 13 February In-training Week ending Entrants 20 February In-training Week ending Entrants 27 February In-training Week ending Entrants 6 March In-training Dundee 12 141 8 147 41 181 28 203 Billingham 11 89 19 103 7 109 0 105 Huddersfield 24 122 19 136 0 128 14 135
January each year 1979 1983 1986 Lincolnshire 19.7 19.5 18.7 Norfolk 19.7 19.1 18.3 North Yorkshire 19.0 18.1 18.0 Northamptonshire 19.4 18.2 17.2 Northumberland 18.3 18.6 18.0 Nottinghamshire 20.1 18.1 17.4 Oxfordshire 19.6 18.7 17.2 Shropshire 19.7 18.1 17.4 Somerset 20.7 20.6 19.0 Staffordshire 19.2 18.0 18.0 Suffolk 19.7 18.5 18.3 Surrey 18.8 18.7 18.1 Warwickshire 19.7 19.2 18.6 West Sussex 20.2 19.1 18.9 Wiltshire 19.7 19.3 19.0 1 Pupil-teacher ratios over all maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools relate the total number of full time equivalent pupils to the total number of full time equivalent qualified teachers, student teachers and instructors being paid by LEAs and employed for service in maintained schools.
§ Mr. Radiceasked the secretary of state for Education and Science if he will publish the pupil-teacher ratio for England in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Kenneth BakerThe overall pupil-teacher ratios in England in each year since 1979 was as follows:
January each Year Pupil/teachers ratio 1 1979 18.9 1980 18.7 1981 18.6 1982 18.5 1983 18.1 1984 17.9 1985 17.8 1986 17.6 1 Pupil-teacher ratios over all maintained nursery primary and secondary schools relate the total number of full time equivalent pupils to the total number of full time equivalent qualified teachers, student teachers and instructors being paid by LEAs and employed for service in maintained schools.