§ Mr. Barry JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales how much has been spent by each local education authority in Wales in each year since 1989 on teacher training courses for Welsh in the national curriculum
§ Sir Wyn RobertsThe total amount which local education authorities spend on training for Welsh language teaching is not collected centrally. However, we have approved the following levels of expenditure for specific grants in support of local education authority training of teachers in Welsh.
primary school staffing survey and the 1989 secondary school staffing survey, copies of which are available in the Library of the House.
(i) Primary level
Information about teachers who teach Welsh as a subject is not held centrally but the number of primary school teachers with a qualification in Welsh is as follows:
429W
Subject of qualification1 Number of teachers Welsh 2,300 Teaching Welsh as a second language 400 1 Main/subsidiary/related subject qualification. (ii) Secondary level
In secondary schools the qualifications of teachers who teach Welsh as a subject are as follows:
Subject Main/subsidiary subject1 per cent. No qualification per cent. Number of teachers Welsh as a first language 83.1 16.9 300 Welsh as a second language 69.9 30.1 600 1 Main/subsidiary/related subject qualification. In order to increase the supply of teachers of the language in secondary schools, Welsh has been added to the list of shortage subjects for which a bursary of £1,500 is paid to students on initial teacher training courses. As part of the monitoring of the national curriculum, schools will be supplying the Department with information about the number of qualified teachers capable of teaching Welsh in the classroom. The Department is also shortly to consult with interested groups on a limited survey of staff in primary schools in 1992.