HC Deb 30 April 2002 vol 384 cc643-4W
Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many supply teachers are working in each local education authority area; and what percentage supply teachers comprise of the total number of teachers in each case; [53664]

(2) pursuant to the publication of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies, January 2002 (Provisional), if she will provide a breakdown by local education authority of each of the 12 tables. [53670]

Mr. Timms

The information requested is not yet available for every local education authority.

Information on teachers and vacancies by local education authority will be published in the Teachers in England statistical volume in December 2002.

Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers have passed through the performance threshold, expressed as(a) a total and (b) a percentage of these eligible to do so. [53666]

Mr. Timms

About 194,000 maintained sector teachers in England were assessed as meeting the threshold standards in the first (2000) round of assessment. This is equivalent to about three quarters of those estimated to have been eligible to apply. The outcomes of the second (2001) round are still being analysed.

Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers in each local education authority were teaching a subject for which they had no relevant subject qualifications on the date of the 2002 Teacher Census; and what percentage this was of the total number of teachers in post in that LEA area. [53668]

Mr. Timms

The information requested was not collected in the 2002 Teacher Census. It will be collected at national level as part of the Secondary Schools Curriculum and Staffing Survey. Preparations for the next survey are in hand.

Mr. Brady

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) if she will provide a breakdown, by country of origin, of teachers in maintained schools in England without qualified teacher status and not on routes to QTS, giving the number of teachers from each country; [53669]

(2) how many teachers without qualified teacher status in maintained schools in England came from (a) outside and (b) within the European economic area. [53671]

Mr. Timms

Information is not collected on country of origin of teachers.