HC Deb 25 January 1990 vol 165 cc788-91W
Mr. Cartwright

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Woolwich of 20 December,Official Report, column 253, in March 1988 and March 1989 how many teachers were employed by each local authority in England; how many teachers were in receipt of an incentive allowance for each local authority in England; what percentage this was of the total employed by each local authority; and how many teachers in receipt of an incentive allowance in each local authority in England held allowances that were (a) incentive A, (b) incentive B, (c) incentive C, (d) incentive D and (e) incentive E.

Mrs. Rumbold

[holding answer 16 January 1990]The table shows for each LEA in England for which figures are available the numbers and percentages of full-time main scale teachers in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools (MNPS) who held an incentive allowance in March 1988. There are 17 authorities from whom the March 1988 return has not yet been received or whose return has not been fully processed. The England total includes an overall estimated component for the missing authorities. Similar figures are not yet available for March 1989.

Incentive Allowances Total with allowance All main scale teachers Per cent. with allowance
None A B C D E
Sutton 519 37 224 19 109 44 433 952 45
Waltham Forest 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
ILEA 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Birmingham 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Coventry 1,478 6 477 6 285 78 852 2,330 37
Dudley 1,327 133 512 18 192 67 922 2,249 41
Sandwell 1,542 73 548 7 238 71 937 2,479 38
Solihull 873 102 372 10 162 27 673 1,546 44
Walsall 1,510 129 528 5 203 59 924 2,434 38
Wolverhampton 1,345 108 435 10 171 66 790 2,135 37
Knowsley 829 69 303 3 143 35 553 1,382 40
Liverpool 2,261 6 1,013 8 417 113 1,557 3,818 41
St. Helens 986 45 317 2 99 43 506 1,492 34
Sefton 1,158 104 436 12 204 44 800 1,958 41
Wirral 1,395 125 527 1 236 80 969 2,364 41
Bolton 1,379 99 348 24 141 59 671 2,050 33
Bury 766 65 233 5 113 23 439 1,205 36
Manchester 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Oldham 1,270 126 290 1 114 15 546 1,816 30
Rochdale 1,278 3 371 4 113 24 515 1,793 29
Salford 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Stockport 1,296 150 373 2 157 42 724 2,020 36
Tameside 1,136 5 293 123 47 468 1,604 29
Trafford 771 93 308 3 98 30 532 1,303 41
Wigan 1,874 6 548 2 201 59 816 2,690 30
Barnsley 1,188 49 261 1 136 31 478 1,666 29
Doncaster 1,576 12 412 5 186 66 681 2,257 30
Rotherham 1,368 126 330 5 184 48 693 2,061 34
Sheffield 2,084 51 1,049 13 383 70 1,566 3,650 43
Bradford 2,835 117 709 2 324 65 1,217 4,052 30
Calderdale 912 20 343 4 144 36 547 1,459 37
Kirklees 1,989 178 532 16 219 46 991 2,980 33
Leeds 3,087 171 1,358 16 569 90 2,204 5,291 42
Wakefield 1,568 47 414 2 211 35 709 2,277 31
Gateshead 937 78 298 1 112 33 522 1,459 36
Newcastle 1,330 111 460 5 193 39 808 2,138 38
North Tyneside 1,203 80 279 130 19 508 1,711 30
South Tyneside 853 47 227 102 25 401 1,254 32
Sunderland 1,501 171 502 9 188 51 921 2,422 38
Avon 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Bedfordshire 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Berkshire 2,760 251 1,062 7 377 74 1,771 4,531 39
Buckinghamshire 2,404 191 939 8 355 82 1,575 3,979 40
Cambridgeshire 2,610 239 803 382 90 1,514 4,124 37
Cheshire 3,982 116 1,436 40 635 218 2,445 6,427 38
Cleveland 3,027 189 929 21 391 41 1,571 4,598 34
Cornwall 1,829 179 1 1 1 1 1,003 2,832 35
Cumbria 2,131 219 655 12 242 17 1,145 3,276 35
Derbyshire 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Devon 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Dorset 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Durham 2,946 101 691 2 270 126 1,190 4,136 29
East Sussex 2,268 90 693 5 333 62 1,183 3,451 34
Essex 5,816 543 2,157 16 800 287 3,803 9,619 40
Gloucestershire 1,977 229 657 11 340 31 1,268 3,245 39
Hampshire 5,649 538 1,955 17 1,011 88 3,609 9,258 39
Hereford 2,502 291 1,005 16 336 104 1,752 4,254 41
Hertfordshire 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Humberside 3,912 200 1,600 10 526 129 2,465 6,377 39
Isle of Wight 436 56 165 6 60 17 304 740 41
Kent 5,281 567 2,248 33 891 280 4,019 9,300 43
Lancashire 6,110 453 1,850 4 778 156 3,241 9,351 35
Leicestershire 4,076 119 1,693 23 555 128 2,518 6,594 38
Lincolnshire 2,126 112 836 10 271 51 1,280 3,406 38
Norfolk 2,791 164 960 9 345 54 1,532 4,323 35
North Yorkshire 2,614 295 926 25 351 89 1,686 4,300 39
Northampton 2,644 136 960 4 407 132 1,639 4,283 38
Northumberland 1,359 144 420 21 174 37 796 2,155 37
Nottinghamshire 4,445 266 1,613 11 693 126 2,709 7,154 38
Oxfordshire 1,796 151 737 25 341 79 1,333 3,129 43
Salop 1,857 1 602 6 349 25 983 2,840 35
Somerset 1,440 287 612 53 229 34 1,215 2,655 46
Staffordshire 4,028 317 1,840 10 641 175 2,983 7,011 43
Suffolk 2,446 205 953 11 287 77 1,533 3,979 39
Surrey 3,185 360 938 10 562 112 1,982 5,167 38
Warwickshire 1,702 168 787 10 335 48 1,348 3,050 44

Incentive Allowances Total with allowance All main scale teachers Per cent. with allowance
None A B C D E
West Sussex 2,475 288 707 6 334 87 1,422 3,897 36
Wiltshire 2,184 137 669 49 306 59 1,220 3,404 36
England 198,000 14,100 70,000 1,000 29,400 7,000 121,500 320,000 38
1— Incomplete return for March 1988.