HC Deb 22 May 1991 vol 191 cc494-8W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list by(a) region and (b) for each local education authority the number of teacher vacancies in January 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991; and if he will show this figure also as a percentage of the total teaching force in each area.

Mr. Fallon

Provisional vacancy figures for 1991 were published on 17 May and are summarised in the table.

The 1991 figures are provisional and a breakdown by local education authority is not yet available. I am arranging for a copy of the numbers of vacancies by local education authority for 1988 to 1990 to be placed in the Library. Comparable figures for 1991 will be placed in the Library when available.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

Details of local education authority capital expenditure bids and education annual capital guidelines—ACGs—for 1991–92 are set out in the table, together with bids and allocations for work at voluntary aided and special agreement schools. No local education authority has ever expected to receive its ACG bid in full, and authorities bid on the basis that they will receive an ACG or allocation to the extent that the bid matches national priority criteria. There is therefore no direct connection between the size of the bid and the level of the ACG or allocation distributed. The percentage figures in the last column are therefore devoid of any real significance.

Annual capital guidelines are not the only source of capital funding available to local education authorities.

Local education authority bids and ACGs for 1991–92 county and voluntary controlled schools and FE colleges
LEA Total bid £000s Total1 ACG £000s ACG as percentage of bid
Barking 5,449 573 11
Barnet 5,884 803 14
Bexley 6,976 1,891 27
Brent 9,208 1,233 13
Bromley 8,564 3,656 43
Croydon 23,427 1,996 9
Ealing 12,634 1,362 11
Enfield 19,437 1,971 10
Haringey 8,045 1,018 13
Harrow 3,934 1,057 27
Havering 4,558 1,945 43
Hillingdon 10,218 1,005 10
Hounslow 5,128 1,516 30
Kingston 5,346 1,303 24
Merton 8,305 1,304 16
Newham 15,546 8,587 55
Redbridge 4,484 752 17
Richmond 5,269 954 18
Sutton 10,812 3,364 31
Waltham 10,818 3,386 31
City 0 2 n/a
Camden 4,133 885 21
Westminster 7,441 624 8
Greenwich 2,310 676 29
Hackney 8,206 1,992 24
Hammersmith 6,697 1,235 18
Islington 6,166 1,010 16
Kensington 7,995 1,846 23
Lambeth 9,067 1,152 13
Lewisham 10,318 2,512 24
Southwark 6,061 1,258 21
Wandsworth 15,632 1,374 9
Tower Hamlets2 34,963 14,619 42
Birmingham 23,060 11,083 48
Coventry 8,962 2,180 24
Dudley 12,969 9,508 73
Sandwell 9,498 1,313 14
Solihull 5,198 1,883 36
Walsall 4,414 1,410 32
Wolverhampton 6,714 2,067 31
Knowsley 6,249 1,173 19
Liverpool 18,286 5,763 32
St. Helens 8,522 2,823 33
Sefton 6,465 4,208 65
Wirral 6,057 3,379 56
Bolton 3,925 899 23
Bury 2,598 1,254 48
Manchester 29,609 4,697 16
Oldham 14,498 8,522 59
Rochdale 14,718 8,071 55
Salford 8,198 3,433 42
Stockport 3,048 1,919 63
Tameside 2,871 1,744 61
Trafford 6,786 3,683 54
Wigan 11,797 7,462 63
Barnsley 2,383 806 34
Doncaster 1,686 375 22
Rotherham 4,433 1,039 23
Sheffield 5,123 1,371 27
Bradford 28,244 9,355 33
Calderdale 2,720 1,661 61
Kirklees 7,170 3,797 53
Leeds 46,141 16,372 35
Wakefield 12,479 2,275 18
Gateshead 10,582 2,840 27
LEA Total bid £000s Total1 ACG £000s ACG as percentage of bid
Newcastle 10,634 2,332 22
North Tyneside 4,759 729 15
South Tyneside 8,228 1,988 24
Sunderland 9,854 3,072 31
Isles of Scilly 215 16 8
Avon 22,096 4,945 22
Bedfordshire 9,812 1,974 20
Berkshire 10,312 3,282 32
Buckinghamshire 15,555 7,124 46
Cambridgeshire 32,006 8,536 27
Cheshire 12,008 5,257 44
Cleveland 12,555 2,979 24
Cornwall 20,719 6,828 33
Cumbria 19,610 9,629 49
Derbyshire 29,640 21,330 72
Devon 25,298 7,715 30
Dorset 13,915 2,605 19
Durham 24,188 6,911 29
East Sussex 32,015 16,761 52
Essex 75,926 22,210 29
Gloucestershire 16,106 6,442 40
Hampshire 42,960 16,517 38
Hereford and Worcester 14,373 6,774 47
Hertfordshire 16,162 6,524 40
Humberside 25,167 8,371 33
Isle of Wight 7,006 2,263 32
Kent 51,039 23,773 47
Lancashire 36,626 22,789 62
Leicestershire 15,209 6,922 46
Lincolnshire 26,069 10,016 38
Norfolk 11,444 2,779 24
North Yorkshire 6,903 4,575 66
Northamptonshire 13,987 8,641 62
Northumberland 5,565 3,545 64
Nottinghamshire 12,741 5,167 41
Oxfordshire 24,896 6,601 27
Shropshire 17,455 6,582 38
Somerset 12,397 4,979 40
Staffordshire 12,391 8,644 70
Suffolk 20,681 9,989 48
Surrey 13,332 5,538 42
Warwickshire 6,696 1,644 25
West Sussex 14,956 3,508 23
Wiltshire 16,446 4,973 30
1 This column represents the ACGs announced in December 1990. Some supplementary credit approvals have been and will be issued during the course of the year.
2 The ACG for Tower Hamlets includes £3.7 million which will be issued as an SCA during the course of the year.
Voluntary aided and special agreement schools 1991–92 total capital bids and allocations
LEA Total bid (£000) 1991–92 Total allocation (£000) 1991–92 Allocation as per cent age of bid
City of London 97
Camden 1,055 226 21
Greenwich 201 36 18
Hackney 442 195 44
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,357 1,295 95
Islington 181 173 96
Kensington 3,580 2,640 74
Lambeth 937 70 7
Lewisham 329 65 20
Southwark 1,616 861 53
Tower Hamlets 597 334 56
Wandsworth 203 49 24
Westminster 346 324 94
Barking 1,955 1,955 100
Barnet 3,605 718 20
Bexley 2,341 305 13
LEA Total bid (£000) 1991–92 Total allocation (£000) 1991–92 Allocation as per cent age of bid
Brent 196 35 18
Bromley 429 198 46
Croyden 3,051 1,814 59
Ealing 315
Enfield 812 302 37
Haringey 1,412 1,163 82
Harrow 172
Havering 311 147 47
Hillingdon 405 20 5
Hounslow 236 53 22
Kingston 646
Merton 228 98 43
Newham 284 134 47
Redbridge 3,399 116 3
Richmond 902 195 22
Sutton 3,374 2,354 70
Waltham Forest 1,800 300 17
Birmingham 3,539 1,113 31
Coventry 1,570 1,369 87
Dudley 2,385 2,006 84
Sandwell 351 7 2
Solihull 687 55 8
Walsall 400
Wolverhampton 614 61 10
Knowsley 1,288 571 44
Liverpool 6,120 4,493 73
St. Helens 2,299 2,149 93
Sefton 2,233 1,750 78
Wirral 1,037 631 61
Bolton 984 436 44
Bury 830 574 69
Manchester 1,305 827 63
Oldham 609 174 29
Rochdale 756 436 58
Salford 567 343 60
Stockport 341 291 85
Tameside 136 35 26
Trafford 781 715 92
Wigan 2,126 1,108 52
Barnsley 25 25 100
Doncaster 145 145 100
Rotherham 385 158 41
Sheffield 945 127 13
Bradford 1,002 873 87
Calderdale 634 444 70
Kirklees 326 218 67
Leeds 12,628 12,288 97
Wakefield 346 180 52
Gateshead 449 64 14
Newcastle upon Tyne 1,050 847 81
North Tyneside 454 203 45
South Tyneside 59 21 36
Sunderland 523 116 22
Avon 1,342 619 46
Bedfordshire 1,127 600 53
Berkshire 723 358 50
Buckinghamshire 2,401 2,207 92
Cambridgeshire 825 79 10
Cheshire 3,324 1,997 60
Cleveland 884 398 45
Cornwall 508 369 73
Cumbria 1,464 869 59
Derbyshire 1,106 889 80
Devon 2,951 567 19
Dorset 6,734 3,985 59
Durham 1,103 718 65
East Sussex 1,319 1,065 81
Essex 1,264 1,010 80
Gloucestershire 1,694 1,229 73
Hampshire 2,994 1,926 64
LEA Total bid (£000) 1991–92 Total allocation (£000) 1991–92 Allocation as per cent age of bid
Hereford and Worcester 2,580 1,356 53
Hertfordshire 2,302 1,656 72
Humberside 1,400 46 3
Isle of Wight 260 210 81
Isles of Scilly
Kent 7,737 2,837 37
Lancashire 6,534 4,051 62
Leicestershire 967 598 62
Lincolnshire 1,753 276 16
Norfolk 587 13 2
North Yorkshire 2,005 775 39
Northamptonshire 400 27 7
Northumberland 1,175 747 64
Nottinghamshire 1,359 135 10
Oxfordshire 2,952 2,526 86
Shropshire 423 238 56
Somerset 2,135 2,041 96
Staffordshire 2,001 979 49
Suffolk 890 345 39
Surrey 2,965 839 28
Warwickshire 3,112 788 25
West Sussex 2,129 1,875 88
Wiltshire 1,677 1,068 64