HC Deb 05 December 1994 vol 251 cc59-62W
Mr. Blunkett

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many educational psychologists have been employed by local authorities in each year since 1979.

Mr. Forth

Information on the number of educational psychologists employed by local education authorities of 1985 and 1992 to 1994, the only years for which information is readily available, is shown in the table.

Full-time equivalent number of educational psychologists in post by local education authority. As at January of each year
LEA 1985 1992 1993 1994
Inner London 87.7
City 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

Full-time equivalent number of educational psychologists in post by local education authority. As at January of each year
LEA 1985 1992 1993 1994
Camden 7.8 7.0 8.2
Greenwich 11.0 12.0 12.0
Hackney 8.5 7.5 10.0
Hammersmith and Fulham 8.0 7.0 7.0
Islington 10.0 8.0 8.0
Kensington and Chelsea 6.0 7.0 7.0
Lambeth 7.8 11.1 13.5
Lewisham 10.0 9.0 9.0
Southwark 10.0 10.5 11.6
Tower Hamlets 10.0 8.5 8.0
Wandsworth 11.0 10.0 5.6
Westminster 7.0 6.0 6.0
Barking and Dagenham 7.0 7.5 7.5 7.2
Barnet 8.5 13.6 14.5 14.5
Bexley 5.0 6.5 6.5 8.0
Brent 9.6 11.2 8.5 10.5
Bromley 8.0 10.0 10.0 9.0
Croydon 9.0 10.8 10.8 10.8
Ealing 5.4 9.8 9.8 11.8
Enfield 9.0 12.5 13.0 15.2
Haringey 7.0 9.8 10.8 10.8
Harrow 6.0 6.0 9.0 8.6
Havering 8.0 8.0 8.7 8.0
Hillingdon 5.0 8.2 8.8 8.9
Hounslow 5.9 5.8 6.0 8.1
Kingston upon Thames 2.0 3.0 4.0 4.3
Merton 5.0 5.7 6.6 5.4
Newham 11.0 11.0 10.2 10.0
Redbridge 6.0 7.4 7.4 7.4
Richmond upon Thames 4.0 5.5 6.0 6.0
Sutton 4.0 6.0 4.0 5.0
Waltham Forest 8.0 7.0 7.0 7.0
Birmingham 37.2 37.5 31.5 39.3
Coventry 12.3 14.0 12.0 12.0
Dudley 7.5 8.5 7.1 6.6
Sandwell 8.0 14.0 14.0 12.0
Solihull 7.3 8.0 8.4 7.5
Walsall 7.0 10.0 9.0 10.0
Wolverhampton 6.0 10.0 9.0 9.0
Knowsley 7.0 6.8 5.8 6.8
Liverpool 15.5 18.0 18.0 18.0
St. Helens 4.0 6.5 9.0 8.0
Sefton 9.0 11.0 10.0 10.0
Wirral 8.0 13.5 10.5 11.5
Bolton 4.0 7.4 7.4 7.4
Bury 3.5 4.5 4.6 4.6
Manchester 14.0 19.3 18.2 17.8
Oldham 5.0 4.0 7.0 6.0
Rochdale 9.0 7.5 7.5 7.5
Salford 6.0 7.0 7.6 7.6
Stockport 6.7 9.5 9.5 10.4
Tameside 7.0 11.0 8.0 7.0
Trafford 3.0 4.0 4.0 4.0
Wigan 8.0 6.5 6.5 9.0
Barnsley 4.0 4.5 4.5 5.6
Doncaster 9.0 9.0 11.0 11.0
Rotherham 9.0 10.3 9.3 10.3
Sheffield 13.6 16.2 18.2 16.3
Bradford 14.0 19.0 20.0 21.5
Calderdale 2.0 6.8 6.5 7.0
Kirklees 12.0 15.0 17.0 18.0
Leeds 13.5 19.0 19.0 15.0
Wakefield 6.0 12.0 10.5 8.5
Gateshead 8.0 10.0 8.5 9.0
Newcastle upon Tyne 12.0 11.0 11.0 11.0
North Tyneside 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0

Full-time equivalent number of educational psychologists in post by local education authority. As at January of each year
LEA 1985 1992 1993 1994
South Tyneside 6.0 8.0 6.0 6.0
Sunderland 9.0 10.1 11.1 11.5
Isles of Scilly 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Avon 28.6 28.8 25.5 25.0
Bedfordshire 12.0 17.0 15.9 14.9
Berkshire 17.3 17.0 19.5 18.8
Buckinghamshire 16.0 21.9 23.0 22.8
Cambridgeshire 12.0 14.0 16.0 18.0
Cheshire 17.0 25.1 25.3 25.1
Cleveland 18.0 18.3 16.5 19.9
Cornwall 8.0 12.0 12.0 12.0
Cumbria 9.0 18.0 19.0 19.0
Derbyshire 21.5 33.1 30.3 29.0
Devon 20.4 22.1 24.5 24.5
Dorset 14.5 17.5 18.6 17.6
Durham 17.4 20.4 23.5 21.5
East Sussex 11.8 19.6 18.7 19.8
Essex 31.4 42.7 42.3 35.8
Gloucestershire 11.0 17.0 17.4 16.4
Hampshire 31.5 44.0 46.8 46.9
Hereford and Worcester 11.0 16.5 16.0 16.0
Hertfordshire 21.5 28.4 33.0 28.0
Humberside 21.0 24.0 24.0 21.0
Isle of Wight 3.0 3.0 3.0 3.0
Kent 19.0 30.0 36.5 42.1
Lancashire 34.0 42.0 40.2 43.5
Leicestershire 19.0 33.6 32.6 32.7
Lincolnshire 10.0 13.0 13.0 15.0
Norfolk 14.0 18.5 19.0 18.0
North Yorkshire 15.2 20.0 19.0 18.0
Northamptonshire 15.0 17.5 19.0 25.5
Northumberland 4.1 9.5 9.5 8.4
Nottinghamshire 30.0 28.5 29.0 28.6
Oxfordshire 12.5 14.5 14.5 14.5
Shropshire 8.0 12.0 11.6 11.6
Somerset 9.0 11.0 11.1 11.9
Staffordshire 17.7 29.4 27.4 27.0
Suffolk 13.0 14.0 14.0 15.0
Surrey 22.0 28.4 29.5 27.2
Warwickshire 9.8 12.3 12.7 14.1
West Sussex 12.0 17.4 17.1 19.0
Wiltshire 13.0 14.8 13.3 14.0
Total: All LEAs 1,173.4 1,496.6 1,497.7 1,514.2