Education Funding and Teacher Recruitment (West Sussex)

HC Deb 27 March 2001 vol 365 cc555-6W

Mr. Flight

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will make a statement on education funding and teacher recruitment in West Sussex. [154836]

	1997	2000
Nottinghamshire	7,800	5,900
City of Nottingham1>	n/a	2,100
Nottinghamshire total:	7,800	8,000
England	399,200	404,600
1Nottinghamshire was split into City of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire in the local Government re-organisation of April 1998.

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

There was a growth of 2,300 in the number of people recruited to train to be teachers between 1999–2000 and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.