Local Education Authority Staff

HC Deb 01 May 1995 vol 259 cc69-70W

Mr. Fisher

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what is the ratio of local education authority administrators to teachers in schools. [21569]

Mr. Robin Squire

Information on staff employed by local authorities is collected by the local government management board.

Figures show that in June 1994, local authorities in England employed 376,665 full-time equivalent teachers and lecturers and 316,244 full-time equivalent other manual and non-manual staff involved in education, making a ratio of around 2.5 non-teaching staff to every three teachers.

The survey does not enable staff employed in schools to be separated from those employed elsewhere or administrative staff to be separated from other non-teaching staff.