§ Mr. FieldTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many and what percentage of teachers in each of the four parliamentary constituencies of Wirral(a) have successfully applied for the teachers' performance pay threshold, (b) have unsuccessfully applied for the teachers' performance pay threshold and (c) are awaiting the outcome of their application for the teachers' performance pay threshold. [146891]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 23 January 2001]: It is estimated that there are about 250,000 teachers in England who are eligible for the post-threshold pay scale, of whom 81 per cent. have applied. There are no reliable data held centrally about the number of teachers eligible for the post-threshold pay scale in each local authority.
The number of teachers in the Wirral, whether or nor they are eligible for the post-threshold pay scale, and the number of applications to date for the Wirral and its four parliamentary constituencies are as follows:
Parliamentary constituency Number of teachers1whether or not eligible for the post threshold pay scale Number of applicants to date2 Percentage of all teachers, whether or not eligible for the post threshold pay scale, that have applied Wirral 3,130 1,786 57 Birkenhead — 394 — Wallasey — 517 — Wiiral, South — 320 — Wirral, West — 516 — 1 Headcount of headteachers, deputy headteachers and qualified classroom teachers in the maintained schools sector at January 2000. It is not possible to provide an appropriate number of teachers by constituency because teachers can teach in more than one school and this would lead to double counting.
575W2 There are 39 candidates from the Wirral that have applied through the local authority so the parliamentary constituencies cannot be identified.
At present only two schools in the Wirral have received assessor visits. We hope that the majority of teachers will have been assessed by Easter.