HC Deb 28 June 2000 vol 352 cc551-5W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teacher vacancies in (i) maintained nursery schools, (ii) maintained primary schools and (iii) maintained secondary schools there were in(a) Great Britain and (b) each local education authority, for each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [127208]

1997 1998 1999 2000
Nursery and Primary Secondary Nursery and Primary Secondary Nursery and Primary Secondary Nursery and primary Secondary
former Durham 4 2
Darlington 3 4 0 0 3 0
Durham 11 7 2 0 2 0
Hartlepool 4 3 3 1 6 3 2 1
Middlesbrough 1 3 5 6 4 2 2 2
Redcar and Cleveland 5 2 1 9 2 4 0 5
Stockton on Tees 3 9 3 6 2 5 1 5
Northumberland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gateshead 6 1 3 1 9 0 5 0
Newcastle upon Tyne 4 1 3 2 7 10 4 5
North Tyneside 0 0 0 0 10 16 1 14
South Tyneside 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1
Sunderland 10 5 7 7 6 5 9 4
former Lancashire 13 18 27 9
Blackburn with Darwen 11 3 7 6
Blackpool 2 1 3 6
Lancashire 18 12 17 4
former Cheshire 15 6 25 14
Halton 2 2 1 5
Warrington 7 0 9 2
Cheshire 10 4 12 11
Cumbria 0 4 1 1 0 2 0 0
Bolton 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 1
Bury 1 3 0 1 0 1 1 0
Manchester 3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oldham 12 8 10 3 6 3 7 4
Rochdale 9 0 10 2 4 2 2 2
Salford 3 3 0 0 0 1 1 2
Stockport 0 1 0 0 3 2 0 6
Tameside 1 4 2 4 0 5 1 0
Trafford 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0
Wigan 9 4 5 0 5 10 3 10
Knowsley 1 3 6 7 3 1 5 6
Liverpool 0 1 0 4 4 1 0 2
St. Helens 4 4 1 4 4 1 1 0
Sefton 1 3 0 0 0 1 3 5
Wirral 5 2 4 10 13 4 2 8
East Riding of Yorkshire 0 0 1 0 4 0 2 0
City of Kingston Upon Hull 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 0
North East Lincolnshire 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
North Lincolnshire 3 3 2 0 4 3 8 2
York 0 0 0 0 1 6 1 5
North Yorkshire 0 0 8 8 3 5 4 5
Barnsley 1 0 2 5 1 1 0 2
Doncaster 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Rotherham 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Sheffield 9 4 14 6 2 0 6 0
Bradford 0 2 14 34 15 3 14 28
Calderdale 12 8 11 3 4 1 3 0
Kirklees 1 1 0 6 2 1 0 3
Leeds 1 9 16 9 6 1 8 10
Wakefield 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
former Derbyshire 22 10
Derby 6 4 13 6 8 11
Derbyshire 25 13 11 13 25 11
former Leicestershire 21 11
Leicester 2 9 5 8 11 9
Leicestershire 5 7 8 3 7 6
Rutland 1 I 0 1 2 0

Ms Estelle Morris

[holding answer 23 June 2000]: The following table shows the number of full-time teacher vacancies in maintained nursery and primary schools1 and maintained secondary schools, in England, January 1997 to 2000, by local authority2.

  • 1Teacher vacancies in nursery schools are not collected separately.
  • 2New unitary local authorities created by local government re-organisation are shown immediately following the reference to their former local authority.

1997 1998 1999 2000
Nursery and Primary secondary Nursery and Primary secondary Nursery and Primary secondary Nursery and Primary secondary
former Nottinghamshire 0 0 0 0
Nottingham 0 0 18 6
Nottinghamshire 0 0 0 0
Lincolnshire 20 12 37 21 11 11 11 8
Northamptonshire 0 1 1 2 3 3 1 9
former Hereford and Worcester 1 3 1 6
Herefordshire 2 4 8 3
Worcestershire 6 5 3 3
former Staffordshire 1 25
Stoke on Trent 10 8 2 1 8 14
Staffordshire 13 8 15 6 17 10
former Shropshire 1 2 1 0
Telford and Wrekin 0 0 7 4
Shropshire 0 1 1 1
Warwickshire 4 6 11 1 9 5 7 6
Birmingham 9 23 7 30 59 12 39 21
Coventry 4 8 4 3 2 10 8 15
Dudley 7 1 5 9 2 5 7 9
Sandwell 8 12 8 7 17 11 7 8
Solihull 1 2 3 4 2 0 5 6
Walsall 4 4 15 21 5 7 2 6
Wolverhampton 5 4 2 6 14 19 5 5
former Bedfordshire 26 7
Luton 7 16 7 17 5 9
Bedfordshire 11 12 5 19 20 19
former Cambridgeshire 2 4 1 6
Peterborough 0 2 0 0
Cambridgeshire 1 0 0 0
former Essex 45 33 56 46
Southend on Sea 6 3 5 16
Thurrock 48 34 19 9
Essex 9 12 83 73
Hertfordshire 21 12 31 36 12 19 10 7
Norfolk 18 12 19 11 47 10 15 15
Suffolk 15 15 8 14 14 17 8 11
Camden 7 9 12 2 21 8 17 13
City of London 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
Hackney 23 1 51 9 38 30 47 22
Hammersmith and Fulham 16 8 35 12 15 8 14 8
Haringey 22 20 20 10 20 13 19 14
Islington 3 14 27 15 10 3 20 11
Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 17 3 3 6 3 2
Lambeth 20 4 6 6 46 12 36 12
Lewisham 16 7 31 18 21 8 18 20
Newham 70 29 61 21 34 3 40 14
Southwark 18 6 54 6 47 14 42 30
Tower Hamlets 45 12 52 13 80 12 71 26
Wandsworth 16 13 29 5 17 12 13 10
City of Westminster 16 2 13 4 14 11 15 14
Barking and Dagenham 27 14 10 7 12 3 8 9
Barnet 9 6 8 14 11 21 29 20
Bexley 1 4 1 5 0 7 13 16
Brent 16 10 20 8 13 17 5 5
Bromley 6 5 11 4 6 7 9 3
Croydon 21 2 8 5 25 11 8 28
Ealing 15 8 17 30 32 22 14 14
Enfield 5 4 11 6 19 9 13 15
Greenwich 5 14 31 22 52 9 16 14
Harrow 4 1 9 2 12 5 24 14
Havering 0 9 0 15 3 10 1 17
Hillingdon 10 9 15 13 8 19 9 14
Hounslow 7 7 8 14 5 10 3 5
Kingston upon Thames 0 3 5 1 6 3 1 7
Merton 5 3 7 0 5 6 3 13
Redbridge 2 2 7 10 7 7 6 1
Richmond upon Thames 3 0 2 1 2 2 3 12
Sutton 3 2 4 5 2 5 0 1
Waltham Forest 35 6 43 4 2 5 0 4
former Berkshire 2 3 0 5
Bracknell Forest 0 0 4 5

1997 1998 1999 2000
Nursery and Primary Secondary Nursery and Primary Secondary Nursery and Primary Secondary Nursery and Primary Secondary
Reading 0 2 10 4
Slough 8 10 3 10
West Berkshire 2 0 4 0
Windsor and Maidenhead 3 6 4 5
Wokingham 9 5 5 9
former East Sussex 18 8
Brighton and Hove 8 5 2 2 5 6
East Sussex 18 11 10 12 9 14
Isle of Wight 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
former Kent 67 27 55 34
Medway 10 6 4 9
Kent 52 37 32 48
former Buckinghamshire 16 18
Milton Keynes 5 0 8 2 6 1
Buckinghamshire 10 14 18 15 36 16
former Hampshire 43 33
Portsmouth 8 15 10 3 6 13
Southampton 6 13 6 9 8 17
Hampshire 38 19 36 57 89 53
Oxfordshire 1 0 4 3 7 4 4 4
Surrey 18 19 27 14 11 9 13 24
West Sussex 29 8 31 8 9 8 27 11
Bath and North East Somerset 3 0 5 0 3 1 3 1
former Dorset 4 8
Bournemouth 0 0 0 1 0 2
Poole 1 2 2 3 2 0
Dorset 9 7 1 1 9 10
City of Bristol 8 6 9 5 6 6 9 4
North Somerset 7 2 5 5 3 7 8 6
former Devon 12 10 15 7
Plymouth 0 5 4 19
Torbay 2 1 2 5
Devon 6 2 18 10
South Gloucestershire 8 2 3 4 3 1 2 1
former Wiltshire 10 9
Swindon 5 2 8 2 5 5
Wiltshire 5 13 17 4 10 4
Cornwall 6 3 6 2 6 0 8 3
Isles of Scilly 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Gloucestershire 12 2 3 5 5 4 20 5
Somerset 0 0 1 3 7 4 6 4
England 1,088 726 1,391 968 1,376 939 1,420 1,242

The supply of teachers in Scotland is the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament, and in Wales, the responsibility of the National Assembly for Wales.