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Mr MacGregor
The most recent comprehensive survey of teacher vacancies was conducted by my Department in January 1989. Numbers of vacancies for full-time permanent teachers in maintained schools in England are given in the table.
| Full-time permament teacher vacancies in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools—England, January 1989 |
| Local Education Authority/Region |
Number of vacancies |
As a percentage of teachers in post |
| Gateshead |
31 |
1.8 |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
50 |
2.3 |
| North Tyneside |
0 |
0.0 |
| South Tyneside |
0 |
0.0 |
| Sunderland |
13 |
0.5 |
| Cleveland |
12 |
0.2 |
| Cumbria |
22 |
0.6 |
| Durham |
15 |
0.3 |
| Northumberland |
11 |
0.4 |
| North |
154 |
0.6 |
| Barnsley |
5 |
0.3 |
| Doncaster |
22 |
0.8 |
| Rotherham |
32 |
1.4 |
| Sheffield |
12 |
0.3 |
| Bradford |
28 |
0.6 |
| Calderdale |
20 |
1.2 |
| Kirklees |
30 |
0.9 |
| Leeds |
61 |
1.0 |
| Wakefield |
70 |
2.6 |
| Humberside |
29 |
0.4 |
| North Yorks |
46 |
0.9 |
352W
| Local Education Authority/Region |
Number of vacancies |
As a percentage of teachers in post |
| York and Humberside |
355 |
0.9 |
| Knowsley |
10 |
0.6 |
| Liverpool |
20 |
0.4 |
| St. Helens |
9 |
0.5 |
| Sefton |
3 |
0.1 |
| Wirral |
19 |
0.7 |
| Bolton |
11 |
0.5 |
| Bury |
14 |
1.0 |
| Manchester |
55 |
1.4 |
| Oldham |
7 |
0.3 |
| Rochdale |
33 |
1.7 |
| Salford |
58 |
2.8 |
| Stockport |
14 |
0.6 |
| Tameside |
38 |
2.1 |
| Trafford |
9 |
0.6 |
| Wigan |
9 |
0.3 |
| Cheshire |
24 |
0.3 |
| Lancashire |
193 |
1.8 |
| North West |
526 |
1.0 |
| Derbyshire |
76 |
1.0 |
| Leicestershire |
44 |
0.6 |
| Lincolnshire |
52 |
1.2 |
| Northamptonshire |
10 |
0.2 |
| Nottinghamshire |
108 |
1.3 |
| East Midlands |
290 |
0.9 |
| Birmingham |
188 |
2.2 |
| Coventry; |
24 |
0.9 |
| Dudley |
48 |
1.9 |
| Sandwell |
25 |
0.9 |
| Solihull |
27 |
1.6 |
| Walsall |
4 |
0.2 |
| Wolverhampton |
24 |
1.0 |
| Hereford and Worcester |
50 |
1.0 |
| Shropshire |
13 |
0.4 |
| Staffordshire |
50 |
0.6 |
| Warwickshire |
31 |
0.8 |
| West Midlands |
484 |
1.1 |
| Cambridgeshire |
39 |
0.8 |
| Norfolk |
31 |
0.6 |
| Suffolk |
36 |
0.8 |
| East Anglia |
106 |
0.7 |
| Barking |
51 |
4.0 |
| Barnet |
85 |
3.9 |
| Bexley |
31 |
1.9 |
| Brent |
32 |
1.6 |
| Bromley |
10 |
0.6 |
| Croydon |
39 |
1.7 |
| Ealing |
116 |
5.5 |
| Enfield |
72 |
3.6 |
| Haringey |
128 |
8.5 |
| Harrow |
16 |
1.2 |
| Havering |
51 |
2.7 |
| Hillingdon |
58 |
3.5 |
| Hounslow |
24 |
1.5 |
| Kingston |
9 |
0.9 |
| Merton |
47 |
4.1 |
| Newham |
194 |
8.2 |
| Redbridge |
36 |
2.3 |
| Richmond |
1 |
0.1 |
| Sutton |
21 |
1.9 |
| Waltham Forest |
75 |
4.2 |
| ILEA |
1,028 |
6.5 |
| South East and Greater London |
2,124 |
4.3 |
| Bedfordshire |
117 |
2.8 |
| Berkshire |
91 |
1.7 |
| Buckinghamshire |
73 |
1.6 |
| East Sussex |
74 |
1.9 |
353W
| Local Education Authority/Region |
Number of vacancies |
As a percentage of teachers in post |
| Essex |
123 |
1.1 |
| Hampshire |
134 |
1.3 |
| Hertfordshire |
109 |
1.4 |
| Isle of Wight |
0 |
0.0 |
| Kent |
224 |
2.1 |
| Oxfordshire |
9 |
0.3 |
| Surrey |
131 |
2.2 |
| West Sussex |
74 |
1.7 |
| Other South East |
1,159 |
1.6 |
| Avon |
21 |
0.3 |
| Cornwall |
47 |
1.4 |
| Devon |
122 |
1.9 |
| Dorset |
11 |
0.3 |
| Gloucestershire |
0 |
0.0 |
| Somerset |
73 |
2.4 |
| Wiltshire |
68 |
1.7 |
| South West |
342 |
1.1 |
| Total England |
5,540 |
1.5 |