§ Mr. KilfoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what were the costs, in each of the last three years, to the Department for Education and Employment, of the procedures and publication connected with the list of teachers struck off the register, temporarily or permanently. [2954]
§ Mr. ForthThe Department does not maintain a register of teachers. It maintains a list—List 99—of teachers and other workers in the education sector who are subject to a bar or restriction on their employment on misconduct or medical grounds. The estimated cost of the work related to barring is £297,000 in 1993–94, £324,000 in 1994–95 and £381,000 in 1995–96.
§ Mr. KilfoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the cost, in each of the last three years to the Department for Education and Employment, of maintaining the national register of teachers in primary and secondary schools. [2953]
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§ Mr. ForthThe Department does not maintain a register of teachers; the qualifications of teachers form part of the database of teacher records which is maintained primarily for pensions purposes. The team, whose main work is awarding qualified teacher status and collecting information for transfer to the DTR, cost about £420,000 in 1995–96, and broadly the same in real terms in the previous two financial years.