HC Deb 11 February 1997 vol 290 cc114-7W
Mr. Nigel Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the cost for each local education authority of early retirement and redundancy packages for teachers for each of the last five years for which figures are available. [15355]

Mrs. Gillan

Total expenditure on premature retirement compensation and Crombie payments as recorded by each local education authority in England and Wales for the years 1990–91 to 1994–95 is shown in the following table. The expenditure figures include payments made to further and higher education lecturers and to teachers at sixth-form colleges and grant-maintained schools who were granted premature retirement by the LEA. Separate details of redundancy payments are not collected centrally.

PRC and Crombie payments
England and Wales £000
1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
St. Helens 953 1,126 2,061 1,383 1,391
Sefton 1,496 1,536 0 0 0
Wirral 231 182 97 28 29
Bolton 898 1,022 1,122 1,098 1,210
Bury 848 1,031 1,064 1,016 1,029
Manchester 2,144 2,815 4,400 4,559 3,808
Oldham 0 0 0 0 0
Rochdale 469 493 806 768 836
Salford 0 0 0 0 0
Stockport 512 447 547 677 706
Tameside 0 0 933 853 948
Trafford 0 0 0 569 615
Wigan 1,377 1,681 1,999 2,269 2,423
Barnsley 200 532 35 37 43
Doncaster 0 379 0 1,583 1,738
Rotherham 203 271 0 0 0
Sheffield 40 0 0 0 0
Bradford 1,354 1,153 2,860 2,863 2,572
Calderdale 453 0 0 0 0
Kirklees 275 1,465 838 397 410
Leeds 0 0 3 3,128 0
Wakefield 1,228 1,389 1,924 1,823 1,604
Gateshead 0 44 73 848 846
Newcastle upon Tyne 305 1,261 1,608 2,776 1,930
North Tyneside 0 0 0 0 0
South Tyneside 0 0 0 273 287
Sunderland 364 470 397 0 0
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0 0
Avon 0 0 747 1,347 1,321
Bedfordshire 0 0 0 0 0
Berkshire 704 812 779 890 1,130
Buckinghamshire 249 265 1,105 1,454 1,520
Cambridgeshire 899 1,447 1,705 1,736 1,785
Cheshire 191 124 1,874 940 814
Cleveland 1,328 1,720 1,761 1,901 1,868
Cornwall 0 0 0 0 1,793
Cumbria 0 0 0 0 0
Derbyshire 1,320 1,556 696 2,425 3,024
Devon 0 0 0 0 0
Dorset 782 1,183 1,443 1,402 1,407
Durham -14 0 0 0 0
East Sussex 547 877 1,039 2,044 1,968
Essex 1,915 1,945 2,066 2,662 2,459
Gloucestershire 1,567 2,150 0 0 0
Hampshire 1,862 2,215 2,750 2,720 3,143
Hereford and Worcester 0 264 0 347 -54
Hertfordshire 453 1,734 1,769 1,322 1,260
Humberside 726 759 854 0 3,615
Isle of Wight 94 108 124 134 174
Kent 314 151 223 219 227
Lancashire 4,374 4,804 5,193 4,781 3,539
Leicestershire 1,267 2,075 2,275 1,701 2,380
Lincolnshire 968 148 126 110 78
Norfolk 1,200 196 0 0 4
North Yorkshire 0 0 0 0 0
Northamptonshire 111 128 494 313 334
Northumberland 0 0 0 0 0
Nottinghamshire 1,066 2,295 0 0 0
Oxfordshire 1,389 1,585 1,586 1,694 1,872
Shropshire 16 19 18 13 5
Somerset 0 0 0 0 0
Staffordshire 2,715 3,214 3,987 3,814 3,797
Suffolk 14 156 0 1,112 1,254
Surrey 0 0 2,791 4,040 3,259
Warwickshire 922 1,269 1,428 1,395 1,490
West Sussex 0 0 0 0 728
Wiltshire 0 0 872 0 1,342
Clwyd 1,938 2,134 2,674 2,364 2,657
Dyfed 812 784 1,006 863 937
Gwent 121 2,866 2,606 2,704 3,174
Gwynedd 206 154 151 140 137

PRC and Crombie payments
England and Wales £000
1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95
Mid Glamorgan 0 919 2,005 343 387
Powys 300 306 644 541 429
South Glamorgan 0 949 972 965 999
West Glamorgan 1,470 1,349 798 1,819 1,922
Total (England and Wales) 58,877 79,025 91,847 96,632 103,995

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