§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teachers are employed in each local education authority(a) currently (b) in 1979, (c) in 1985 and (d) in 1990; and if she will make a statement. [8676]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe full-time equivalent numbers of teachers employed in each local authority area in the maintained—including grant-maintained—nursery, primary and secondary sector in January 1995 are shown in the following table. The table excludes staff in sixth form colleges which transferred to the further education sector on 1 April 1993.
Information for the years 1979, 1985 and 1990 include sixth form colleges and are contained in the Department of Education and Science "Pupil/Teacher Ratios in each
516Wcommunity services, service strategy and regulation and education support services. The table also shows the amount spent per pupil, although in the case of non-schools expenditure school pupils are not the principal clients and the figures are not therefore meaningful.
Local Education Authority in England", statistical bulletins 17/79, 6/86 and 5/91, copies of which have been placed in the Library.
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Full-time equivalent teachers employed by local education authorities and grant-maintained schools in the nursery, primary and secondary1 sector England January 1995 Local education authority area FTE of teachers Corporation of London 16 Camden 1,346 Greenwich 1,939 Hackney 1,429 Hammersmith and Fulham 941 Islington 1,360 Kensington and Chelsea 674 Lambeth 1,680 Lewisham 1,863 Southwark 1,687
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Full-time equivalent teachers employed by local education authorities and grant-maintained schools in the nursery, primary and secondary1 sector England January 1995 Local education authority area FTE of teachers Tower Hamlets 2,250 Wandsworth 1,561 Westminster 1,121 Barking and Dagenham 1,446 Barnet 2,638 Bexley 1,836 Brent 1,971 Bromley 2,181 Croydon 2,409 Ealing 2,097 Enfield 2,358 Haringey 1,730 Harrow 1,576 Havering 1,891 Hillingdon 1,870 Hounslow 1,890 Kingston upon Thames 1,057 Merton 1,269 Newham 1,968 Redbridge 1,937 Richmond upon Thames 1,052 Sutton 1,354 Waltham Forest 1,706 Birmingham 9,366 Coventry 2,657 Dudley 2,576 Sandwell 2,689 Solihull 1,845 Walsall 2,560 Wolverhampton 2,377 Knowsley 1,446 Liverpool 4,194 St. Helens 1,635 Sefton 2,546 Wirral 2,927 Bolton 2,467 Bury 1,420 Manchester 3,587 Oldham 2,202 Rochdale 1,819 Salford 1,821 Stockport 2,185 Tameside 1,842 Trafford 1,694 Wigan 2,754 Barnsley 1,704 Doncaster 2,703 Rotherham 2,440 Sheffield 3,719 Bradford 4,779 Calderdale 1,769 Kirklees 3,373 Leeds 5,759 Wakefield 2,704 Gateshead 1,715 Newcastle upon Tyne 2,104 North Tyneside 1,639 South Tyneside 1,340 Sunderland 2,728 Isles of Scilly 26 Avon 7,677 Bedfordshire 5,008 Berkshire 6,171 Buckinghamshire 5,310 Cambridge 5,573 Cheshire 8,013 Cleveland 5,189 Cornwall 3,675
Full-time equivalent teachers employed by local education authorities and grant-maintained schools in the nursery, primary and secondary1 sector England January 1995 Local education authority area FTE of teachers Cumbria 4,016 Derbyshire 7,555 Devon 7,437 Dorset 4,393 Durham 5,117 East Sussex 4,899 Essex 11,771 Gloucestershire 4,258 Hampshire 11,871 Hereford and Worcester 5,329 Hertfordshire 8,725 Humberside 7,394 Isle of Wight 999 Kent 12,552 Lancashire 12,088 Leicestershire 7,810 Lincolnshire 4,877 Norfolk 5,898 North Yorkshire 5,774 Northamptonshire 5,624 Northumberland 2,672 Nottinghamshire 8,354 Oxfordshire 4,426 Shropshire 3,384 Somerset 3,665 Staffordshire 8,245 Suffolk 5,466 Surrey 6,529 Warwickshire 4,027 West Sussex 5,230 Wiltshire 4,698 England 392,910 1Excluding sixth form colleges which transferred to the new FE sector on 1 April 1993.