HC Deb 18 January 1996 vol 269 c693W
Mr. Merchant

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will estimate the cost to the Education Service of the five non-teaching days for which teachers are contracted. [9923]

Mr. Robin Squire

Full-time teachers are employed throughout the year, although their conditions of employment provide that they must be available for work for 195 days in any school year, of which 190 days shall be days on which they may be required to teach pupils. Consequently there is no specific cost associated with the five non-teaching days.

Expenditure on education and latest pupil numbers
(A) (B) (C) (D)
Pupil numbers Education standard spending assessment Education budget Delegated schools budget
LEAs (January 1995) 1995–96 £ million 1996–97 (provisional) £ million 1995–96 £ million 1995–96 £ million
Corporation of London 212 0.8 0.8 2.9 0.7
Camden 19,546 78.8 78.3 79.4 47.1
Greenwich 35,025 114.3 113.9 112 81.9
Hackney 25,184 92.8 92.1 101 56
Hammersmith and Fulham 14,655 57.2 56 62.5 34.9
Islington 23,675 80.4 81.1 82.7 56.6
Kensington and Chelsea 8,603 37.3 34.2 45.8 23.8
Lambeth 19,839 102.1 100.8 105.9 50.4
Lewisham 31,225 108 109 109.6 69.8
Southwark 27,686 109.9 108.8 109.1 60.6
Tower Hamlets 34,046 120.2 122.8 125.7 77.4
Wandsworth 19,683 88.7 86.3 91.4 46.8
City of Westminster 17,013 59.9 58.1 68.9 40.5
Barking 26,354 65.7 69.9 72.3 52.4
Barnet 32,349 113.7 116.7 120.5 64
Bexley 30,891 84.5 88.7 80 52.6
Brent 22,949 106.3 109 95.5 42.9
Bromley 27,055 99.6 103.8 108.1 42.7
Croydon 34,374 114.3 118.4 119.6 66.6
Ealing 31,653 108.9 112.2 109.2 61.9
Enfield 36,459 112.2 117.8 113.2 68.6
Haringey 29,737 89.1 93.4 96.9 63.5
Harrow 27,152 70.4 73 76.8 55.7
Havering 31,355 84.1 87.2 85.8 58.4
Hillingdon 19,190 88.9 93.8 87.2 37.4
Hounslow 31,752 90.2 94.8 89.4 63.2
Kingston upon Thames 15,360 45.9 47.1 47.3 28.1
Merton 21,398 56.3 58.1 56.4 41.9
Newham 40,598 123.8 130.4 115.2 74.9
Redbridge 34,137 94.2 98.3 95.8 67.2
Richmond upon Thames 18,427 44.3 45.9 48 37.6
Sutton 17,388 64.5 67.8 65.4 32.5
Waltham Forest 29,695 94.1 97.4 94.4 62.3
Birmingham 158,041 427.2 448.7 456.4 301.7
Coventry 49,334 115.7 119.9 130.3 94.5
Dudley 42,496 98.9 104.2 107.6 71.5
Sandwell 48,668 113.8 118.1 120.7 85.1