HC Deb 19 May 1997 vol 294 cc10-2W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was (a) the total number and (b) the number in each local education authority of (i) head teachers, (ii) deputy head teachers and (iii) teachers who took early retirement on the grounds of ill-health in 1995–96; and if he will make a statement. [165]

Mr. Byers

Teachers in service in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special education sector in England at 31 March 1995 who were awarded ill-health retirement in the financial year 1995–96 are as follows:

Ill-health retirements in financial year 1995–96
Heads Deputies Classroom teachers
Corporation of London 0 0 0
Camden 0 * 19
Greenwich * 0 16
Hackney * * 9
Hammersmith and Fulham * 0 17
Islington * * 5
Kensington and Chelsea * 0 9
Lambeth 0 0 17
Lewisham * 0 9
Southwark * 0 13
Tower Hamlets 0 0 11
Wandsworth 0 * 11
Westminister * * 8
Barking and Dagenham * * 8
Barnet * 0 18
Bexley * * 9
Brent 0 * 10
Bromley 7 0 12
Croydon * 0 17
Ealing 0 * 11
Enfield * 0 16
Haringey 6 * 7
Harrow 0 * 13
Havering * * 18
Hillingdon 0 * 9
Hounslow * * 19
Kingston upon Thames * * 13
Merton * * *
Newham 0 0 11
Redbridge * 0 7
Richmond upon Thames * 0 8
Sutton 0 * 13
Waltham Forest * * 19
Birmingham 6 9 94
Coventry 0 * 26
Dudley * * 23
Sandwell 5 * 22
Solihull 0 * 12
Walshall * * 29
Wolverhampton 0 * 19
Knowsley * 0 15
Liverpool * * 42
St. Helens * * 13
Sefton * * 25
Wirral * * 26
Bolton * * 20
Bury * * 17
Manchester * * 36
Oldham * * 18
Rochdale 5 * 28
Salford 0 * 21
Stockport * * 32
Tameside * * 22
Trafford * * 23
Wigan * 5 23
Barnsley 0 5 16
Doncaster * * 25
Rotherham * * 14
Sheffield 6 * 32
Bradford 7 5 39
Calderdale * * 20
Kirklees * * 39
Leeds * 6 72
Wakefield 5 * 42
Gateshead * * 26
Newcastle upon Tyne 0 0 18

Ill-health retirements in financial year 1995–96
Heads Deputies Classroom teachers
North Tyneside * * 9
South Tyneside * * 15
Sunderland * * 33
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0
Avon 12 8 57
Bedfordshire * 5 34
Berkshire * * 55
Buckinghamshire 5 * 44
Cambridgeshire * 5 37
Cheshire 12 7 74
Cleveland 5 11 76
Cornwall 12 7 35
Cumbria 5 9 34
Derbyshire 14 9 47
Devon 17 9 78
Dorset 6 0 50
Durham 6 11 85
East Sussex 8 5 37
Essex 9 14 110
Gloucestershire 5 * 32
Hampshire 11 12 129
Hereford and Worcester 12 8 59
Hertfordshire * * 75
Humberside 6 13 86
Isle of Wight * 0 16
Kent 26 11 131
Lancashire 24 20 175
Leicstershire 6 5 73
Lincolnshire 9 * 41
Norfolk 16 11 58
North Yorkshire 7 5 39
Northamptonshire 6 5 68
Northumberland 5 * 26
Nottinghamshire 13 9 78
Oxfordshire * * 47
Shropshire 8 * 28
Somerset 15 6 49
Staffordshire 8 11 115
Suffolk 8 * 52
Surrey 7 5 50
Warwickshire 5 * 38
West Sussex 8 * 26
Wiltshire 5 * 38
England 483 381 3753

In order to avoid sensitive information about individuals being identified, numbers less than five are shown as asterisks.