Pupil-Teacher Ratios

HC Deb 27 April 1993 vol 223 c348W

Mr. Callaghan

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the current pupil-teacher ratios(a) in England and (b) in the Greater Manchester area.

Mr. Boswell

The table shows the overall pupil-teacher ratios, at January 1992, for the maintained nursery, primary and secondary school sector in England and in the metropolitan districts of Greater Manchester (including self-governing state schools).

LEA	Overal PTR
Bolton	17.40
Bury	18.10
Manchester	17.40
Oldham	17.40
Rochdale	16.90
Salford	17.50
Stockport	18.30
Tameside	17.10
Trafford	18.50
Wigan	16.30
Greater Manchester	17.40
England	17.44