HC Deb 14 November 2001 vol 374 cc805-6W
Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimates she has made of the number of teachers in maintained schools who were not British citizens in each term of the last four years. [7271]

Mr. Timms

[holding answer 15 October 2001]: Information on teachers who are not British citizens is not collected centrally.

Nursery/primary Secondary Total
Number of

vacancies

Vacancy rate

(percentage)1

Number of

vacancies

Vacancy rate

(percentage)1

Number of

vacancies

Vacancy rate

(percentage)1

Cambridgeshire
January2
19963 3 0.1 10 0.4 13 0.3
19973 2 0.1 4 0.2 6 0.1
19983 1 0.0 6 0.3 7 0.1
1999 1 0.1 0 0.0 1 0.0
2000 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
2001 2 0.1 1 0.1 3 0.1
Peterborough
January2
19963 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
19973 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
19983 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
1999 0 0.0 2 0.3 2 0.1
2000 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0
2001 3 0.5 4 0.6 7 0.5

2001, Official Report, column 714W, how many full-time equivalent teachers there were without qualified teacher status in maintained schools in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) those on the graduate teacher programme, (b) those on the registered teacher programme, (c) those on the licensed teacher programme, (d) those on the overseas trained teacher scheme, (e) instructors and (f) other teachers without QTS. [12424]

Mr. Timms

[holding answer 5 November 2001]: The number of teachers on each of the programmes specified are not identified separately. Numbers of teachers without qualified teacher status (QTS) working in the maintained schools sector in England between January 1997 and January 2001 were as follows:

Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many overseas teachers employed in maintained schools are not covered by the overseas trained teacher scheme. [12364]

Mr. Timms

The information requested is not collected centrally.