Teachers (Hansard, 5 December 2001)

§ Chris Grayling
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many full-time teachers have become supply teachers in the past three years. [20108]

§ Mr. Timms
This information is not collected centrally.

§ Chris Grayling
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teacher vacancies there are in special schools. [20111]

§ Mr. Timms
In January 2001 there were 280 full-time teacher vacancies in maintained special schools in England.

§ Mr. Bercow
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teacher vacancies there were in Buckinghamshire in October(a) 1997 and (b) 2001. [20130]

§ Mr. Timms
The information is not available for the dates requested. Full-time teacher vacancies in maintained nursery, primary, secondary and special schools reported by the Buckinghamshire local authority were as follows:

As at January Number

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