§ Charlotte AtkinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many advanced skills teachers there are in each local education authority; and if she will make a statement. [12840]
§ Mr. TimmsAdvanced Skills Teachers (AST) in post in each local authority in January 2001 and the number of teachers who have passed assessment for the AST grade since assessments resumed in May 2001 are as follows:
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Local authority ASTs in post at January 2001
Teachers passing AST assessment
(Mar-September 2001)
Barking and Dagenham 3 0 Barnet 10 8 Barnsley 0 0 Bath and North East Somerset 3 0 Bedfordshire 2 12 Bexley 0 2 Birmingham 19 2 Blackburn with Darwen 0 0 Blackpool 0 1 Bolton 7 5 Bournemouth 6 1 Bracknell Forest 2 0 Bradford 2 0 Brent 0 0 Brighton and Hove 0 0 Bristol, City of 0 0 Bromley 24 0 Buckinghamshire 3 0 Bury 0 0 Calderdale 2 0
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Local authority ASTs in post at January 2001
Teachers passing AST assessment
(May-September 2001)
Cambridgeshire 4 2 Camden 0 1 Cheshire 0 0 City of London 0 0 Cornwall 7 2 Coventry 3 0 Croydon 6 2 Cumbria 11 9 Darlington 6 0 Derby 0 0 Derbyshire 7 2 Devon 3 2 Doncaster 2 0 Dorset 2 0 Dudley 0 0 Durham 4 0 Ealing 0 0 East Riding of Yorkshire 0 0 East Sussex 2 10 Enfield 2 0 Essex 49 16 Gateshead 0 0 Gloucestershire 14 17 Greenwich 2 4 Hackney 0 0 Halton 1 1 Hammersmith and Fulham 1 0 Hampshire 0 5 Haringey 0 0 Harrow 0 0 Hartlepool 0 1 Havering 0 0 Herefordshire 6 6 Hertfordshire 11 3 Hillingdon 3 9 Hounslow 0 0 Isle of Wight 1 0 Isles of Scilly 0 0 Islington 0 1 Kensington and Chelsea 0 0 Kent 30 16 Kingston Upon Hull, City of 4 1 Kingston upon Thames 0 0 Kirklees 1 1 Knowsley 0 0 Lambeth 3 4 Lancashire 13 1 Leeds 7 43 Leicester 0 0 Leicestershire 2 1 Lewisham 0 1 Lincolnshire 15 23 Liverpool 0 0 Luton 3 0 Manchester 4 1 Medway 2 0 Merton 0 1 Middlesbrough 2 0 Milton Keynes 1 2 Newcastle upon Tyne 0 1 Newham 13 4 Norfolk 3 3 North East Lincolnshire 1 4 North Lincolnshire 0 4 North Somerset 0 0 North Tyneside 0 0 North Yorkshire 7 6 Northarnptonshire 18 3 Northumberland 1 0 Nottingham 0 0 Nottinghamshire 7 5 Oldham 0 0 Oxfordshire 21 1 Peterborough 13 2 Plymouth 7 6 Poole 0 0 Portsmouth 3 0 Reading 1 0 Redbridge 0 2 Redcar and Cleveland 3 1 Richmond upon Thames 3 2
Local authority ASTs in post at January 2001
Teachers passing AST assessment
(May-September 2001)
Rochdale 6 0 Rotherham 0 0 Rutland 0 0 Sal ford 0 0 Sandwell 0 2 Sefton 5 0 Sheffield 0 0 Shropshire 6 1 Slough 6 5 Solihull 3 0 Somerset 8 8 South Gloucestershire 0 0 South Tyneside 4 0 Southampton 0 0 Southend-on-Sea 6 5 Southwark 0 0 St. Helens 0 0 Staffordshire 0 0 Stockport 0 0 Stockton-on-Tees 4 0 Stoke-on-Trent 0 0 Suffolk 1 1 Sunderland 0 12 Surrey 0 0 Sutton 0 3 Swindon 1 0 Tameside 5 3 Telford and Wrekin 1 0 Thurrock 5 4 Torbay 5 1 Tower Hamlets 1 0 Trafford 0 1 Wakefield 0 0 Walsall 6 0 Waltham Forest 3 0 Wandsworth 7 5 Warrington 7 8 Warwickshire 0 0 West Berkshire 2 1 West Sussex 6 7 Westminster 13 2 Wigan 2 1 Wiltshire 3 0 Windsor and Maidenhead 1 1 Wirral 1 0 Wokingham 5 5 Wolverhampton 3 0 Worcestershire 7 2 York 12 21 Totals 563 362 The number of AST assessments between May and September 2001 is equal to 64 per cent. of the January figure of ASTs in post. reflecting the rapidly growing number of teachers interested in becoming ASTs. The Government are committed to the continuing expansion of the AST grade.