§ Chris GraylingTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many registered supply teachers there are in England and Wales. [17118]
§ Mr. TimmsWe do not keep a central register of supply teachers.
There were 19,600 short-term supply teachers (on contracts of less than one month) employed for the whole day in the English maintained schools sector on the 18 January 2001, the date of the annual census of teachers in service, approximately 4.6 per cent. of all teachers employed in the maintained schools sector.