HC Deb 04 June 1998 vol 313 cc358-63W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many teacher ill health retirement cases have been(a) approved and (b) turned down since April 1997 in each local education authority area; [43117]

(2) how many (a) heads and (b) deputy heads have (i) sought ill health retirement and (ii) had their applications for ill health retirement rejected since April 1997 in each local education authority. [43118]

Dr. Howells

The table shows the number of teachers in each local education authority who were awarded ill-health retirement in financial year 1997–98. The table covers the maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special education sectors in England. Information is not held by LEA of the number of applications which are

Ill-health retirees whose last known service was in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary or special sector— England 1997–98 provisional
Last known grade on or before 31 March 1997
Last known LEA Headteachers Deputy Headteachers Classroom Teachers Total
City of London 0 0 0 0
Camden * 0 6 7
Greenwich * 0 9 11
Hackney * 0 5 7
Hammersmith and Fulham * 5 14 21
Islington 0 0 16 16
Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 * *
Lambeth * 0 10 11
Lewisham 0 0 7 7
Southwark 0 * 8 9
Tower Hamlets 0 * 11 13
Wandsworth * 5 5 13
City of Westminster 0 * 5 6
Barking and Dagenham * * 8 10
Barnet * 0 14 15
Bexley * * 6 10
Brent 0 0 9 9
Bromley 0 * 6 8
Croydon * 0 10 11
Ealing 0 0 9 9
Enfield 0 0 9 9
Haringey * 0 * 7
Harrow * 0 5 7
Havering * 0 13 14
Hillingdon * 0 6 7
Hounslow * * 5 7
Kingston upon Thames * * 7 9
Merton * * 6 8
Newham 0 * 11 12
Redbridge * * * 6
Richmond upon Thames 0 0 6 6
Sutton 0 * 6 7
Waltham Forest * * 9 13
Birmingham 8 7 64 79
Coventry * 0 18 19
Dudley * * 12 17
Sand well * 0 15 17
Solihull * 0 12 14
Walsall * 0 17 20
Wolverhampton * 0 23 25
Knowlsey * * 11 13
Liverpool 7 * 29 38
St. Helens * * 12 14
Sefton * * 24 31
Wirral * 0 21 23
Bolton 5 * 26 33
Bury * 0 7 8
Manchester 6 0 27 33
Oldham * * 20 25
Rochdale * * 13 15
Salford * * 13 19
Stockport * * 18 23
Tameside * 0 11 13
Trafford * 0 14 16
Wigan * * 21 23
Barnsley * * 11 19
Doncaster * 0 13 14
Rotherham * * 14 17
Sheffield 5 * 25 34
Bradford * * 29 36
Calderdale * * 13 16
Kirklees * 0 33 37
Leeds 8 * 50 62

rejected. The rejected rate is approximately 30 per cent. of all applications received.

Ill-health retirees whose last known service was in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary or special sector— England 1997–98 provisional
Last known grade on or before 31 March 1997
Last known LEA Headteachers Deputy Headteachers Classroom Teachers Total
Wakefield * * 13 16
Gateshead * * 13 15
Newcastle upon Tyne * 0 14 16
North Tyneside 0 * 7 8
South Tyneside * * 18 20
Sunderland * * 23 29
Isles of Scilly 0 0 0 0
Bath and North East Somerset * * 5 8
City of Bristol * * 21 24
North Somerset * * 10 13
South Gloucestershire * * 8 10
Hartlepool * * * 7
Middlesbrough * 0 7 10
Redcar and Cleveland * * 16 19
Stockton-on-Tees 0 * 20 21
City of Kingston upon Hull * * 14 16
East Riding of Yorkshire * * 12 15
North East Lincolnshire * * 10 14
North Lincolnshire * * 12 15
North Yorkshire 9 * 20 31
York * 0 9 11
Bedfordshire * 0 9 12
Luton 0 0 8 8
Buckinghamshire * * 11 14
Milton Keynes * 0 * *
Derbyshire 6 * 20 30
City of Derby * * 8 10
Dorset * * 14 17
Poole * 0 * *
Bournemouth 0 * * 5
Durham 0 * 35 37
Darlington 0 0 5 5
East Sussex * * 18 21
Brighton and Hove * * 7 10
Hampshire * * 40 47
Portsmouth 0 0 10 10
Southampton 0 0 * *
Leicestershire * * 16 19
Leicester City * 0 10 11
Rutland 0 0 * *
Staffordshire * * 31 36
Sotke on Trent * * 22 25
Wiltshire * * 11 17
Swindon * 0 * *
Berkshire 6 * 30 37
Cambridgeshire * * 27 35
Cheshire * 5 34 43
Cornwall 7 * 32 40
Cumbria 9 * 25 35
Devon 9 * 70 82
Essex 8 8 52 68
Gloucestershire * * 21 27
Hereford and Worcester * * 25 31
Hertfordshire * 5 45 52
Isle of Wight * * 7 10
Kent 14 * 72 90
Lancashire 9 10 104 123
Lincolnshire 6 * 29 36
Norfolk 6 5 43 54
Northampton shire * * 28 32
Northumberland * * 18 26
Nottinghamshire * * 54 62
Oxfordshire * * 23 29
Shropshire 9 * 19 29
Somerset 5 * 24 32
Suffolk * 6 24 34
Surrey * * 31 37

Ill-health retirees whose last known service was in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary or special sector— England 1997–98 provisional
Last known grade on or before 31 March 1997
Last known LEA Warwickshire Headteachers Deputy Headteachers Classroom Teachers Total
Warwickshire * * 20 27
West Sussex * * 44 49
Not known 27 16 163 206
Total 349 227 2,477 3,053

Notes:

1. Includes all retirees whether or not retiring directly from teaching service.

2. The LEA shown is the last known before retirement.

3. To avoid disclosure of sensitive information on individuals, numbers less than 5 are shown as asterisks.

4. Not known category includes teachers whose last known LEA no longer exists due to local government re-organisation.

Source:

DfEE Database of Teacher Records and Pensioner statistics database.