HC Deb 02 May 2000 vol 349 cc92-3W
Mr. Clappison

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many(a) teachers and (b) classroom support staff have been employed by (i) former grant-maintained primary schools and (ii) former grant-maintained secondary schools in each of the last five years. [120258]

Ms Estelle Morris

The available information on numbers of teaching staff and educational support staff in former grant-maintained primary and secondary schools is shown in the table.

The Department is currently collecting information on teaching and education support staff in maintained primary and secondary schools for January 2000. These data will be published in a statistical volume in September.

Number of schools, full-time equivalent1 number of teachers and education support staff for grant-maintained primary and secondary schools for 1995–99 in England
Position as at January
Grant maintained primary Grant maintained secondary
Number of schools Number of teachers Number of education support staff2 Number of schools Number of teachers Number of education support staff2
1999 511 6,141.0 2,100.7 668 39,270.9 6,003.2
1998 508 6,017.2 1,925.8 667 38,759.4 5,697.4
1997 483 5,722.4 1,689.1 652 37,527.1 5,210.2
1996 448 5,266.4 1,434.2 642 36,175.1 4,725.6
1995 410 4,824.5 1,173.7 622 34,896.2 4,286.6
1 Includes full-time and full-time equivalent of part-time staff
2 Includes nursery assistants, special needs support staff, librarians and technicians