HC Deb 22 October 1998 vol 317 cc1194-6W
Helen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of teaching staff in(a) local authority schools and (b) grant maintained schools are currently on fixed-term contracts, broken down by local education authority. [55831]

Mr. Charles Clarke

The percentage of full and part-time fixed term contracts (of one month or over) for teaching staff in local authority maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England at January 1998 are given in the table. Teachers with more than one contract have had all contracts included in the calculation. Similar information for grant maintained schools is not held by the Department.

Percentage
LEA Full-time Part-time All contracts
City of London 21.4 14.3 19.0
Camden 3.9 8.7 5.0
Greenwich 4.0 37.9 11.9
Hackney 5.3 11.6 6.1
Hammersmith and Fulham 11.2 84.6 19.8
Islington 4.6 7.4 5.0
Kensington and Chelsea 4.8 19.1 8.0
Lambeth 6.0 36.4 10.7
Lewisham 7.1 12.7 8.3
Southwark 9.3 28.4 11.8
Tower Hamlets 8.0 35.3 11.9
Wandsworth 11.4 32.5 15.6
City of Westminster 6.5 30.8 10.5
Barking 4.9 51.8 8.6
Barnet 6.4 25.3 10.8
Bexley 4.5 26.0 7.7
Brent 9.2 51.3 15.8
Bromley n/a n/a n/a
Croydon 5.8 46.6 13.4
Ealing 6.4 49.1 13.1
Enfield 4.2 21.1 6.2
Haringey 3.2 9.4 4.0
Harrow n/a n/a n/a
Havering 3.9 60.7 13.9

Percentage
LEA Full-time Part-time All contracts
Hillingdon 4.0 42.9 10.5
Hounslow n/a n/a n/a
Kingston 6.2 22.9 10.0
Merton 8.5 43.1 15.0
Newham 3.3 26.9 4.5
Redbridge 3.1 28.0 6.5
Richmond 8.3 64.2 25.2
Sutton 5.2 31.0 9.4
Waltham Forest 3.1 19.0 4.9
Birmingham 6.1 26.0 8.1
Coventry 3.6 23.6 6.6
Dudley 9.7 48.6 13.2
Sandwell 8.0 43.6 11.2
Solihull 5.8 42.9 10.7
Walsall 5.7 33.8 8.8
Wolverhampton 4.3 24.8 6.6
Knowsley 5.6 13.2 6.1
Liverpool n/a n/a n/a
St. Helens 4.0 29.5 5.5
Sefton 6.8 26.3 8.8
Wirral 1.0 5.8 1.5
Bolton 4.8 30.7 7.2
Bury 5.5 30.5 8.2
Manchester 8.6 37.7 11.0
Oldham 6.6 59.3 11.7
Rochdale 5.2 36.0 8.3
Salford 4.3 33.8 5.4
Stockport 8.5 53.1 13.9
Tameside 6.6 38.0 9.0
Trafford 9.6 62.0 13.4
Wigan 6.6 38.4 9.3
Barnsley 5.9 30.1 7.0
Doncaster 4.8 33.3 7.5
Rotherham 6.6 33.2 9.1
Sheffield 6.8 31.3 11.3
Bradford 8.9 27.2 11.5
Calderdale 6.9 30.1 9.7
Kirklees 8.2 45.6 13.5
Leeds 4.3 20.9 6.2
Wakefield 7.1 76.4 11.3
Gateshead 6.9 55.6 11.2
Newcastle upon Tyne 5.4 40.8 8.8
North Tyneside 6.0 28.3 8.3
South Tyneside 6.2 52.6 9.7
Sunderland 6.1 45.0 7.9
Isles of Scilly 0.0 55.6 17.9
Bath and NE Somerset 7.2 32.0 11.9
City of Bristol 9.5 54.4 18.8
North Somerset 4.9 41.3 10.7
South Gloucestershire 5.5 37.2 11.7
Hartlepool 8.3 64.2 12.0
Middlesbrough 7.7 83.9 11.4
Redcar and Cleveland 6.7 38.5 10.0
Stockton on Tees 5.4 33.3 8.9
City of Kingston upon Hull 3.6 47.8 7.5
East Riding of Yorkshire 5.9 30.3 9.3
North East Lincolnshire 5.7 17.9 6.8
North Lincolnshire 4.7 36.2 8.4
North Yorkshire 6.5 58.4 16.0
York 4.8 37.7 10.7
Bedfordshire 8.2 36.4 12.7
Luton 10.5 36.3 14.3
Buckinghamshire 10.1 44.1 17.8
Milton Keynes 4.6 85.0 16.8
Derbyshire 4.2 21.7 7.0
Derby n/a n/a n/a
Dorset 7.6 39.7 13.3
Poole 6.1 39.6 11.4
Bournemouth 5.7 33.3 9.9
Durham 9.6 80.1 14.4
Darlington 6.9 12.5 7.7
East Sussex 6.3 41.2 13.4
Brighton and Hove 0.2 0.8 0.3
Hampshire 5.7 43.5 11.8
Portsmouth 5.9 38.2 9.9
Southampton 0.0 0.0 0.0
Leicester 7.9 62.8 21.4
Leicester City 10.1 67.3 21.3
Rutland 27.0 0.0 20.3
Staffordshire 6.6 45.9 11.1
Stoke 7.2 34.8 9.3
Percentage
LEA Full-time Part-time All contracts
Wiltshire 13.5 50.8 21.8
Swindon 8.2 53.9 14.3
Berkshire 6.6 34.7 12.5
Cambridgeshire 6.1 39.6 11.7
Cheshire 8.7 53.9 14.5
Cornwall 6.9 50.6 16.6
Cumbria 9.0 75.4 24.3
Devon 7.0 42.0 13.9
Essex 4.4 34.8 9.3
Gloucestershire 13.0 36.5 19.2
Hereford and Worcester 6.5 37.5 12.1
Hertfordshire 6.2 35.4 11.9
Isle of Wight 6.2 48.1 12.4
Kent 4.9 47.0 13.1
Lancashire 6.2 46.8 11.0
Lincolnshire 5.5 34.6 9.5
Norfolk 3.6 77.0 15.4
Northamptonshire 7.6 50.5 13.7
Northumberland 4.4 43.6 11.9
Nottinghamshire 2.4 12.0 3.7
Oxfordshire 6.2 35.5 11.4
Shropshire 9.8 64.4 18.6
Somerset 5.5 37.0 11.7
Suffolk 4.9 48.6 13.4
Surrey 5.4 34.8 11.5
Warwickshire 7.5 47.6 15.1
West Sussex 4.8 26.5 8.8
Total 6.2 41.2 11.5