§ Mr. Barry JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give his most recent assessment of teacher vacancies in Wales in total and by education authority for(a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) all local authority schools, giving for each the number of posts vacant and the proportion of posts vacant.
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe Department has undertaken two surveys of teacher vacancies this year. The results of the first, undertaken in January, reported 346 vacancies. Details are set out in the following table:
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LEA Primary Vacancies Secondary Total Clwyd 31 11 42 Dyfed 3 11 14 Gwent 33 46 79
LEA Vacancies Primary Secondary Total Gwynedd 26 22 48 Mid Glamorgan 81 38 119 Powys 10 10 20 South Glamorgan 3 10 13 West Glamorgan — 11 11 Wales 187 159 346 The second survey was undertaken at the start of the school year in September. Local education authorities reported the following vacancies in their areas:
LEA Vacancies Primary Secondary Total Clwyd 2 — 2 Dyfed 4 2 6 Gwent — — — Gwynedd — — — Mid Glamorgan 10 5 15 Powys — — — South Glamorgan 2 4 6 West Glamorgan 19 6 25 Wales 37 17 54 The most recent information on the number of teachers employed by the local education authorities relates to January 1990 when 13,074 teachers were employed in primary schools and 13,298 in secondary schools.