HC Deb 31 July 1998 vol 317 cc805-6W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many head teachers have been(a) suspended and then reinstated and (b) dismissed following investigations of financial irregularities concerning their school's finances in each year since 1987; and how many were subsequently convicted of a criminal offence. [54435]

Mr. Charles Clarke

Of the information requested(a) is not collected centrally, and (b) could be provided only at disproportionate cost, since manual searches through individual records would be required.