HC Deb 19 November 2001 vol 375 cc59-61W
Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teacher vacancies there were in maintained schools in each local education authority area at the beginning of the current school term. [15619]

Mr. Timms

[holding answer 16 November 2001]: The information is not available for September 2001 Full-time teacher vacancies in the maintained schools sector in January 2001 in England were as follows:

Teacher vacancies Vacancy rate (%)
Gateshead 6 0.4
Newcastle upon Tyne 19 0.9
North Tyneside 14 0.8
South Tyneside 0 0.0
Sunderland 20 0.8
Hartlepool 5 0.6
Middlesbrough 20 1.7
Redcar and Cleveland 18 1.5
Stockton on Tees 15 0.9
Durham 37 0.9
Darlington 8 1.1
Northumberland 0 0.0
Bolton 7 0.3
Bury 4 0.3
Manchester 0 0.0
Oldham 16 0.7
Rochdale 5 0.3
Salford 4 0.2
Stockport 25 1.2
Tameside 23 1.3
Trafford 0 0.0
Wigan 11 0.4
Cheshire 25 0.5
Halton 6 0.6
Warrington 11 0.7
Lancashire 61 0.7
Blackburn with Darwen 19 1.6
Blackpool 5 0.5
Cumbria 6 0.2
Knowsley 12 0.8
Liverpool 0 0.0
St. Helens 8 0.5
Sefton 15 0.6
Wirral 20 0.7
Barnsley 20 1.3
Doncaster 10 0.4
Rotherham 1
Sheffield 14 0.4
Bradford 0 0.0
Calderdale 7 0.4
Kirklees 10 0.3
Leeds 47 0.8
Wakefield 14 0.5

Teacher vacancies Vacancy rate (%)
Kingston-upon-Hull, City of 8 0.4
East Riding of Yorkshire 6 0.3
North East Lincolnshire 20 1.6
North Lincolnshire 10 0.8
North Yorkshire 12 0.3
York 6 0.5
Derbyshire 45 0.9
Derby 16 0.9
Leicestershire 30 0.7
Leicester 42 1.8
Rutland 0 0.0
Lincolnshire 20 0.4
Northamptonshire 20 0.4
Nottinghamshire 0 0.0
Nottingham 41 2.2
Birmingham 83 0.9
Coventry 24 1.0
Dudley 28 1.1
Sandwell 49 2.0
Solihull 32 1.7
Walsall 17 0.7
Wolverhampton 32 1.6
Herefordshire 18 1.6
Worcestershire 8 0.2
Shropshire 4 0.2
Telford and Wrekin 5 0.4
Staffordshire 40 0.6
Stoke-on-Trent 20 1.1
Warwickshire 42 1.2
Cambridgeshire 3 0.1
Peterborough 7 0.5
Norfolk 71 1.3
Suffolk 89 1.8
Bedfordshire 76 2.6
Luton 63 4.2
Essex 220 2.3
Southend-on-Sea 24 2.0
Thurrock 69 6.9
Hertfordshire 50 0.6
City of London 0 0.0
Camden 59 5.2
Greenwich 63 3.6
Hackney 101 8.0
Hammersmith and Fulham 49 5.9
Islington 56 5.0
Kensington and Chelsea 36 6.6
Lambeth 51 3.7
Lewisham 71 4.2
Southwark 100 6.0
Tower Hamlets 157 8.6
Wandsworth 53 3.7
Westminster 49 4.8
Barking and Dagenham 24 1.7
Barnet 100 4.4
Bexley 85 4.8
Brent 23 1.2
Bromley 63 2.9
Croydon 77 3.2
Ealing 66 3.4
Enfield 65 2.7
Haringey 43 2.5
Harrow 58 4.5
Havering 38 2.2
Hillingdon 52 2.7
Hounslow 18 1.0
Kingston upon Thames 23 2.5
Merton 18 1.7
Newham 103 4.6
Redbridge 40 2.0
Richmond upon Thames 30 3.5
Sutton 10 0.7
Waltham Forest 7 0.4
Bracknell Forest 16 2.4

Teacher vacancies Vacancy rate (%)
Windsor and Maidenhead 34 3.9
West Berkshire 10 0.9
Reading 37 4.4
Slough 62 6.7
Wokingham 18 1.6
Buckinghamshire 59 1.8
Milton Keynes 21 1.3
East Sussex 43 1.4
Brighton and Hove 17 1.1
Hampshire 175 2.2
Portsmouth 59 4.5
Southampton 50 3.4
Isle of Wight 7 0.7
Kent 196 2.0
Medway 51 2.6
Oxfordshire 16 0.4
Surrey 104 1.6
West Sussex 82 1.6
Isles of Scilly 0 0.0
Bath and North East Somerset 9 0.7
City of Bristol 25 1.0
North Somerset 7 0.5
South Gloucestershire 7 0.4
Cornwall 0 0.0
Devon 47 1.1
Plymouth 1
Torbay 9 1.0
Dorset 18 0.7
Poole 19 2.0
Bournemouth 7 0.7
Gloucestershire 14 0.3
Somerset 11 0.3
Wiltshire 19 0.7
Swindon 20 1.5
England 4,976 1.4

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