§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teacher vacancies there were in(a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools at the latest date for which information is available by each local education authority. [62304]
§ Mr. Charles ClarkeThe information requested is shown in the table.
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Teacher vacancies1 in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools by LEA: and Government Office region: January 1998 England Nursery and Primary Secondary Gateshead 3 1 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3 2 North Tyneside 0 0 South Tyneside 0 2 Sunderland 7 7 Hartlepool 3 1 Middlesbrough 5 6 Redcar and Cleveland 1 9 Stockton on Tees 3 6 Durham 11 7 Darlington 3 4 Northumberland 0 0 North East 39 45 Cumbria 1 1 Cheshire 25 14 Bolton 0 2 Bury 0 1 Manchester 0 0 Oldham 10 3 Rochdale 10 2 Salford 0 0 Stockport 0 0 Tameside 2 4 Trafford 0 2 Wigan 5 0 Lancashire 27 9 North West 80 38 Knowsley 6 7 Liverpool 0 4 St. Helens 1 4
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Teacher vacancies1 in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools by LEA: and Government Office region: January 1998 England Nursery and Primary Secondary Sefton 0 0 Wirral 4 10 Merseyside 11 25 City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 0 1 East Riding of Yorkshire 1 0 North East Lincolnshire 1 1 North Lincolnshire 2 0 North Yorkshire 8 8 York 0 0 Barnsley 2 5 Doncaster 0 0 Rotherham 0 0 Sheffield 14 6 Bradford 14 34 Calderdale 11 3 Kirklees 0 6 Leeds 16 9 Wakefield 0 0 Yorkshire and The Humber 69 73 Derbyshire 25 13 Derby 6 4 Leicestershire 2 9 Leicester City 5 7 Rutland 1 1 Lincolnshire 37 21 Northamptonshire 1 2 Nottinghamshire 0 0 East Midlands 77 57 Hereford and Worcester 1 6 Shropshire 1 0 Staffordshire 13 8 Stoke 10 8 Warwickshire 11 1 Birmingham 7 30 Coventry 4 3 Dudley 5 9 Sandwell 8 7 Solihull 3 4 Walsall 15 21 Wolverhampton 2 6 West Midlands 80 103 Cambridgeshire 1 6 Norfolk 19 11 Suffolk 8 14 Bedfordshire 11 12 Luton 7 16 Essex 56 46 Herefordshire 31 36 Eastern 133 141 City 0 0 Camden 12 2 Greenwich 31 22 Hackney 51 9 Hammersmith and Fulham 35 12 Islington 27 15 Kensington and Chelsea 17 3 Lambeth 6 6 Lewisham 31 18 Southwark 54 6 Tower Hamlets 52 13 Wandsworth 29 5 Westminster 13 4 Barking 10 7 Barnet 8 14 Bexley 1 5 Brent 20 8
Teacher vacancies1 in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools by LEA: and Government Office region: January 1998 England Nursery and Primary Secondary Bromley 11 4 Croydon 8 5 Ealing 17 30 Enfield 11 6 Haringey 20 10 Harrow 9 2 Havering 0 15 Hillingdon 15 13 Hounslow 8 14 Kingston-upon-Thames 5 1 Merton 7 0 Newham 61 21 Redbridge 7 10 Richmond-upon-Thames 2 1 Sutton 4 5 Waltham Forest 43 4 London 625 290 Berkshire 0 5 Buckinghamshire 10 14 Milton Keynes 5 0 East Sussex 18 11 Brighton and Hove 8 5 Hampshire 38 19 Portsmouth 8 15 Southampton 6 13 Isle of Wight 0 0 Kent 55 34 Oxfordshire 4 3 Surrey 27 14 West Sussex 31 8 South East 210 141 Bath and North East Somerset 5 0 City of Bristol 9 5 North Somerset 5 5 South Gloucestershire 3 4 Cornwall 6 2 Isles of Scilly 0 0 Devon 15 7 Dorset 9 7 Poole 1 2 Bournemouth 0 0 Gloucestershire 3 5 Somerset 1 3 Wiltshire 5 13 Swindon 5 2 South West 67 55 England 1,391 968 1 Vacancies are recorded for posts which are full-time, permanent, are not currently filled by someone on a contract of one term or more and have been advertised. Vacancies for head teacher and deputies are included above. Source:
Form 618G survey January 1998