HC Deb 11 January 2001 vol 360 c627W
Mr. Cotter

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many permanent specialist mathematics teaching vacancies there were in North Somerset local education authority schools in each year since 1979. [142944]

Ms Estelle Morris

Information on teaching vacancies in North Somerset local education authority prior to 1997 is not available, due to the fact that this particular authority was formed as part of the local government reorganisation of 1 April 1996. The number of full-time mathematics teaching vacancies in maintained secondary schools in North Somerset local authority on the third Thursday in January each year since the authority was created is as follows:

Year Number
1997 0
1998 0
1999 1
2000 2

The number of regular teachers in maintained schools increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000.

A DfEE survey of maintained secondary schools in England in the first week of September 2000 indicated that there were about 1,000 secondary teacher vacancies.

There was a growth of 2000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999–2000 and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.