§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will rank, for the latest year for which figures are available, by order, the percentage of non-teaching staff as a proportion of total staff in each local authority education department together with the following information(a) total teachers, (b) total non-teachers, (c) central administrative staff and (d) the percentage of school budgets retained by the local education authority from total spending on schools.
§ Mr. FallonNumbers of non-teaching staff employed in local authority education are collected quarterly by the joint staffing watch, managed by a group of representatives of local and central Government. The group publishes a joint press notice with DOE giving national figures and local authority employment totals, but these are not broken down by service in individual authorities. Agreement to publish the individual figures has been withheld in the past, by members of the group, but will be now sought with urgency. When permission is forthcoming, the full analysis will be placed in the Library.
Total teacher numbers for each local education authority in England are given in the Department of Education and Science Statistical Bulletin 5/90, available in the Library. The budget statements for 1990–91, published under section 42 of the Education Reform Act, give details of each local education authority's spending on central administration and other items. These details are being placed in the Library.