§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list for each of the education authority areas participating in her voucher scheme for early years education(a) the number qualified nursery school teachers in post, (b) the number of qualified nursery school assistants or nurses in post and (c) the number of persons holding qualifications of the Pre-school Learning Alliance. [17868]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe available information is shown in the following table:
Full-time equivalent numbers of teachers and nursery assistants employed in maintained nursery schools and nursery classes in maintained primary schools: January 1995. Teachers Nursery Assistants LEA Total of which qualified Total of which qualified Kensington and Chelsea 39 39 44 30 Wandsworth 72 68 85 77 Westminster 41 39 45 36 Norfolk 29 20 26 26 Qualified nursery assistants are those holding the NNEB Certificate (or equivalent) not employed as qualified teachers.
§ Mr. SpearingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list(a) the estimated number of five-year-olds eligible, (b) the number of places already available through existing providers, by category, (c) the additional number of places expected from existing or new providers by category and (d) the deficit or surplus of places at the latest convenient date, for each of the local education authority areas participating in phase I of the early age voucher scheme. [17870]
§ Mr. Robin SquireChildren aged five will hold nursery education vouchers only where they become five in the term before compulsory school age. Data on these children are not held separately.