§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the number of supply teachers employed within each local education authority at the latest date for which information is available. [65909]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe information is in the table.
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Occasional teachers1 by local education authority in England January 1997 and 1998 Local Education Authority 1998 City of London 0 Camden 88 Greenwich 71 Hackney 76 Hammersmith & Fulham 89 Islington 58 Kensington & Chelsea 74 Lambeth 31 Lewisham 97 Southwark 132 Tower Hamlets 112 Wandsworth 69 City of Westminster 70 Barking 96 Barnet 64 Bexley 62 Brent 56 Bromley 39 Croydon 101 Ealing 59 Enfield 87 Haringey 119 Harrow 39 Havering 67 Hillingdon 31 Hounslow 61 Kingston 39 Merton 70 Newham 157 Redbridge 38 Richmond 24 Sutton 44 Waltham Forest 47 Birmingham 463 Coventry 82 Dudley 131 89W
Occasional teachers1 by local education authority in England January 1997 and 1998 Local Education Authority 1998 Sandwell 65 Solihull 79 Walsall 62 Wolverhampton 72 Knowsley 55 Liverpool 130 St. Helens 62 Sefton 90 Wirral 89 Bolton 102 Bury 54 Manchester 143 Oldham 43 Rochdale 92 Salford 110 Stockport 125 Tameside 29 Trafford 59 Wigan 184 Barnsley 99 Doncaster 74 Rotherham 98 Sheffield 152 Bradford 116 Calderdale 52 Kirklees 112 Leeds 164 Wakefield 94 Gateshead 56 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne 72 North Tyneside 61 South Tyneside 29 Sunderland 105 Isles of Scilly 0 Bath & North East Somerset 28 City of Bristol 155 North Somerset 77 South Gloucestershire 66 Hartlepool 28 Middlesborough 42 Redcar and Cleveland 51 Stockton on Tees 70 City of Kingston-Upon-Hull 91 East Riding of Yorkshire 89 North East Lincolnshire 69 North Lincolnshire 87 North Yorkshire 126 York 80 Bedfordshire 206 Luton 83 Bedfordshire 289 Buckinghamshire 37 Milton Keynes 38 Buckinghamshire 75 Derbyshire 189 Derby 51 Derbyshire 240 Dorset 2 Poole 33 Bournemouth 40 Dorset 75 Durham 217 Darlington 13 Durham 230 East Sussex 95 Brighton & Hove 43 East Sussex 138 Hampshire 293 Portsmouth 36 Southampton 48 Hampshire 377 Leicstershire 82
Occasional teachers1 by local education authority in England January 1997 and 1998 Local Education Authority 1998 Leicester City 68 Rutland 5 Leicestershire 155 Staffordshire 253 Stoke 72 Staffordshire 325 Wiltshire 68 Swindon 37 Wiltshire 105 Berkshire 126 Cambridgeshire 124 Cheshire 151 Cornwall 126 Cumbria 133 Devon 247 Essex 236 Gloucestershire 78 Hereford & Worcester 141 Hertfordshire 93 Isle of Wight 38 Kent 129 Lancashire 513 Lincolnshire 137 Norfolk 156 Northamptonshire 241 Northumberland 138 Nottinghamshire 454 Oxfordshire 112 Shropshire 129 Somerset 137 Suffolk 229 Surrey 134 Warwickshire 106 West Sussex 101 Total 13,149 1 Occasional teachers are employed on a day to day or short term contract (less than one month) in response to a specific vacancy or short term absence. Figures relate to teachers employed for the whole of the third Thursday in January of each year. Notes:
1. The data are for maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special schools, Pupil Referral Units and education otherwise than in schools.
2. By way of comparison, in 1997, there were 13,611 such teachers employed by LEAs.