HC Deb 26 June 1989 vol 155 cc297-9W
Mr. Evennett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to the reply to the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford of 8 May,Official Report, column 299, if he will now publish a table based on the 1987 database of teacher records data showing the distribution of teachers across the salary scales at March 1987, distinguishing between primary and secondary sectors; whether the numbers of teachers in each sector on scale 3, scale 4 or senior teacher scales agrees with the projections made by his Department based on the March 1985 database of teacher records data for the purposes of salary assimilation in September 1987; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

[holding answer 14 June 1989]: The information is as follows:

Distribution of teachers by salary scale: March 1987
Nursery and primary schools1 Secondary schools1
Scale 1 55,920 59,120
Scale 2 63,240 59,470
Scale 3 14,360 (16,000) 56,490 (53,000
Scale 4 300 (0) 29,950 (28,500)
Senior teacher 50 (0) 7,280 (6,500)
Deputy head 18,680 10,310
Head 21,740 4,990
TOTAL 174,280 227,610
1 The figures in brackets are the numbers forecast in 1987 on the basis of the 1985 database of teacher records.