HC Deb 28 February 2002 vol 380 cc1544-53W
Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many qualified teachers are employed by the Department and its associated agencies. [39008].

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The Department does not keep records of the number of qualified teachers it employs. The DfES does not have any associated agencies.

Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers have left posts in schools in each of the past five years to take positions with the Department and its associated agencies. [39009].

Mr. Ivan Lewis

The Department does not keep records of the number of teachers that have left posts in schools in each of the past five years to take positions with the Department, DfES does not have any associated agencies.

Mr. Breed

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the teacher vacancy rate was in(a) nursery/primary schools and (b) secondary schools in each constituency in England (i) in 1992, (ii) in 1997, (iii) in 2001 and (iv) at the most recent available date. [38338]

Mr. Timms

Data on teacher vacancies by constituency are not collected centrally. The teacher vacancies as a percentage of teachers in post in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools by local education authority1 in January 1992, 1997 and 2001 were as follows (2001 is the most recent available year):

Nursery and primary Secondary
1992 1997 2001 1992 1997 2001
City of London 0.0 7.7 0.0
Camden 1.3 1.3 6.8 1.1 1.3 4.1
Greenwich 0.1 0.6 2.5 0.4 1.8 4.9
Hackney 0.6 3.0 6.6 0.2 0.2 10.0
Hammersmith and Fulham 0.9 3.6 3.8 1.7 2.4 7.1
Islington 0.3 0.4 6.1 2.0 3.0 2.8
Kensington and Chelsea 0.0 0.0 6.3 0.0 0.0 6.8
Lambeth 1.3 2.2 4.1 0.2 0.9 2.2
Lewisham 0.0 1.8 3.7 0.6 1.1 4.9
Southwark 0.3 1.9 6.1 2.8 1.1 5.7
Tower Hamlets 3.4 4.2 10.4 1.6 1.4 6.7
Wandsworth 0.1 2.1 2.9 0.9 2.2 4.3
City of Westminster 0.0 3.2 7.4 2.2 0.4 2.2
Nursery and primary Secondary
1992 1997 2001 1992 1997 2001
Barking and Dagenham 1.1 3.8 1.8 0.0 2.2 1.6
Barnet 2.7 0.8 5.6 0.5 0.5 3.3
Bexley 1.2 0.1 4.2 0.1 0.5 5.3
Brent 0.4 1.5 0.9 0.6 1.1 1.7
Bromley 0.3 0.7 2.7 0.4 0.5 3.0
Croydon 0.0 1.7 2.2 0.3 0.2 4.6
Ealing 1.5 1.4 1.3 0.7 0.9 6.3
Enfield 1.0 0.5 2.7 0.4 0.3 2.7
Haringey 4.3 2.4 2.4 1.6 2.9 2.6
Harrow 0.0 0.5 4.2 0.0 0.2 4.9
Havering 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1 1.1 4.3
Hillingdon 3.4 1.2 1.8 1.3 1.0 3.1
Hounslow 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.3 0.8 1.5
Kingston upon Thames 1.0 0.0 2.1 0.2 0.6 2.6
Merton 0.0 0.8 0.3 0.0 0.7 2.8
Newham 4.6 6.5 4.5 2.3 3.0 4.8
Redbridge 1.4 0.2 1.0 0.6 0.2 2.9
Richmond upon Thames 0.6 0.7 2.0 0.9 0.0 4.8
Sutton 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.3 0.3 1.3
Waltham Forest 1.9 3.8 0.0 1.8 0.8 0.9
Birmingham 1.7 0.2 0.8 0.5 0.6 1.0
Coventry 0.8 0.3 0.7 1.0 0.7 1.3
Dudley 2.5 0.5 0.9 0.8 0.1 1.2
Sandwell 0.7 0.6 1.2 1.1 1.0 2.5
Solihull 0.9 0.1 1.0 1.1 0.2 2.3
Walsall 0.7 0.4 0.7 0.6 0.3 0.8
Wolverhampton 0.3 0.5 1.8 0.8 0.4 1.1
Knowsley 0.8 0.1 0.6 0.7 0.5 1.1
Liverpool 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0
St. Helens 0.3 0.5 0.1 0.5 0.5 1.0
Sefton 0.0 0.1 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.5
Wirrall 0.1 0.4 0.6 0.0 0.2 0.6
Bolton 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.6
Bury 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.6
Manchester 0.6 0.2 0.0 0.3 0.3 0.0
Oldham 0.1 1.2 0.8 0.5 0.8 0.7
Rochdale 1.1 1.0 0.5 0.3 0.0 0.1
Salford 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.4 0.4 0.5
Stockport 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.0 0.1 1.8
Tameside 0.7 0.1 0.1 1.0 0.5 2.6
Trafford 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0
Wigan 0.0 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.6
Barnsley 0.2 0.1 0.7 0.1 0.0 2.0
Doncaster 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.2 0.0 0.4
Rotherham 0.6 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1
Sheffield 0.2 0.5 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.4
Bradford 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0
Calderdale 0.7 1.5 0.5 0.4 1.0 0.4
Kirklees 0.2 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.3
Leeds 0.3 0.0 0.6 0.6 0.3 1.1
Wakefield 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.7
Gateshead 0.5 0.8 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.4
Newcastle upon Tyne 1.5 0.4 1.0 0.4 0.1 0.9
North Tyneside 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.8
South Tyneside 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Sunderland 0.5 0.8 0.8 0.5 0.4 0.8
Isles of Scilly 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 10.0 0.0
Former Avon 1.0 0.5
Bath and North East
Somerset 0.5 0.9 0.0 0.5
City of Bristol 0.6 1.0 0.6 1.0
North Somerset 1.2 0.5 0.3 0.6
South Gloucestershire 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.4
Nursery and primary Secondary
1992 1997 2001 1992 1997 2001
Total former Avon area 1.0 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.3 0.7
Former Cleveland 0.3 0.4
Hartlepool 1.0 0.3 0.8 1.1
Middlesbrough 0.1 0.7 0.6 3.1
Redcar and Cleveland 0.8 0.5 0.4 2.5
Stockton on Tees 0.4 0.9 1.3 1.1
Total former Cleveland area 0.3 0.5 0.6 0.4 0.8 1.9
Former Humberside 0.6 0.6
City of Kingston Upon Hull 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.9
East Riding of Yorkshire 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5
North East Lincolnshire 0.0 1.5 0.0 1.8
North Lincolnshire 0.5 1.2 0.5 0.5
Total former Humberside area 0.6 0.1 0.5 0.6 0.2 0.9
Former North Yorkshire 0.1 0.3
North Yorkshire 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.4
York 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.5
Total former North Yorkshire area 0.1 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.4
Former Bedfordshire 1.6 1.4 0.8 0.3
Bedfordshire 2.3 2.7
Luton 4.8 3.8
Total former Bedfordshire area 1.6 1.4 3.4 0.8 0.3 3.0
Former Berkshire 1.8 0.1 0.7 0.1
Bracknell Forest 1.2 3.6
Windsor and Maidenhead 2.8 4.0
West Berkshire 1.7 0.2
Reading 3.7 4.6
Slough 7.0 6.2
Wokingham 1.2 1.5
Total former Berkshire area 1.8 0.1 3.0 0.7 0.1 3.0
Former Buckinghamshire 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.9
Buckinghamshire 1.4 2.0
Milton Keynes 1.3 1.2
Total former Buckinghamshire area 0.5 0.6 1.3 0.7 0.9 1.8
Former Cambridgshire 0.3 0.1 0.1 0.2
Cambridgeshire 0.1 0.1
Peterborough 0.5 0.6
Total former Cambridgeshire area 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2
Former Cheshire 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.2
Cheshire 0.5 0.4
Halton 0.0 1.1
Nursery and primary Secondary
1992 1997 2001 1992 1997 2001
Warrington 0.8 0.5
Total former Cheshire area 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.2 0.5
Cornwall 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.0
Cumbria 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.1
Former Derbyshire 0.8 0.7 0.5 0.3
Derbyshire 1.0 0.8
Derby 0.6 1.3
Total former Derbyshire area 0.8 0.7 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.9
Former Devon 0.9 0.4 0.5 0.3
Devon 0.6 1.5
Plymouth 0.1 0.0
Torbay 0.3 1.5
Total former Devon area 0.9 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.3 1.0
Former Dorset 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.3
Dorset 0.8 0.5
Poole 2.9 0.9
Bournemouth 0.5 1.0
Total former Dorset area 0.0 0.2 1.2 0.0 0.3 0.7
Former Durham 0.3 0.2 0.4 0.1
Durham 0.6 1.3
Darlington 0.3 2.1
Total former Durham area 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.4 0.1 1.4
Former East Sussex 0.2 0.8 0.7 0.4
East Sussex 0.8 1.9
Brighton and Hove 1.0 1.1
Total former East Sussex area 0.2 0.8 0.9 0.7 0.4 1.7
Former Essex 0.2 0.8 0.4 0.6
Essex 2.3 2.4
Southend on Sea 1.4 2.8
Thurrock 7.0 6.9
Total former Essex area 0.2 0.8 2.7 0.4 0.6 2.7
Gloucestershire 0.5 0.7 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.5
Former Hampshire 0.6 0.8 0.4 0.7
Hampshire 2.0 2.3
Portsmouth 3.0 6.0
Southampton 3.1 3.8
Total former Hampshire area 0.6 0.8 2.3 0.4 0.7 3.0
Former Hereford and Worcester 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
Herefordshire 1.2 2.0
Worcestershire 0.0 0.3
Total former Hereford and Worcester Area 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.0 0.1 0.6
Hertfordshire 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.3 0.6
Isle of Wight 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 1.1
Former Kent 0.4 1.2 0.7 0.4
Kent 1.7 1.9
Medway 2.5 2.4
Total former Kent area 0.4 1.2 1.8 0.7 0.4 2.0
Nursery and primary Secondary
1992 1997 2001 1992 1997 2001
Former Lancashire 0.8 0.2 0.4 0.4
Lancashire 1.0 0.4
Blackburn with Darwen 1.4 2.1
Blackpool 0.4 0.7
Total former Lancashire 0.8 0.2 1.0 0.4 0.4 0.6
Former Leicestershire 0.5 0.7 0.3 0.3
Leicestershire 0.9 0.5
Leicester 2.3 1.0
Rutland 0.0 0.0
Total former Leicestershire area 0.5 0.7 1.4 0.3 0.3 0.6
Lincolnshire 0.0 0.9 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.5
Norfolk 1.2 0.7 1.3 0.6 0.5 1.3
Northamptonshire 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.6
Northumberland 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Former Nottinghamshire 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0
Nottinghamshire 0.0 0.0
Nottingham 1.4 2.7
Total former Nottinghamshire area 0.2 0.0 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.6
Oxfordshire 0.0 0.1 0.5 0.1 0.0 0.3
Former Shropshire 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.1
Shropshire 0.1 0.3
Telford and Wrekin 0.0 0.8
Total former Shropshire area 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.1 0.5
Somerset 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.2
Former Staffordshire 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.6
Staffordshire 0.6 0.6
Stoke on Trent 0.4 1.7
Total former Staffordshire area 0.0 0.0 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.8
Suffolk 1.3 0.8 2.2 1.4 0.5 1.6
Surrey 0.8 0.6 0.8 0.6 0.7 2.1
Warwickshire 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.1 0.4 1.8
West Sussex 0.7 1.2 1.4 0.3 0.4 1.7
Former Wiltshire 1.1 0.5 0.6 0.4
Wiltshire 0.8 0.6
Swindon 0.8 2.1
Total former Wiltshire area 1.1 0.5 0.8 0.6 0.4 1.0
England 0.6 0.6 1.2 0.5 0.4 1.4
1 Local education authorities created by local government re-organisation in 1996, 1997 and 1998 are shown under their parent authority. To allow comparisons between years, the vacancy data for new authorities have been aggregated to give rates for the former authority areas.

Paul Holmes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers there were in the different age bands in each local education authority in January 2001. [39219]

Mr. Timms

The ages of qualified full time teachers in regular service in the maintained schools sector in each LEA in England at 31 March 2000 are as follows. These are the most recent data available, and are provisional.

Under 25 25 to 29 30 to 34 35 to 39 40 to 44 45 to 49 50 to 54 55 to 59 60 and over Total
City of London 10
Camden 40 230 220 170 120 150 140 60 30 1,150
Greenwich 80 250 30 180 210 350 250 90 20 1,670
Hackney 30 60 70 140 190 160 70 20 720
Hammersmith 40 180 130 100 90 120 100 40 10 800
Islington 30 190 210 190 140 160 120 60 10 1,120
Kensington and Chelsea 40 70 50 50 50 70 30 10 360
Lambeth 40 180 220 200 180 230 180 50 20 1,290
Lewisham 50 210 240 210 220 300 240 90 10 1,570
Southwark 50 210 200 180 180 230 180 60 20 1.300
Tower Hamlets 60 230 270 280 270 290 240 80 20 1,740
Wandsworth 60 290 240 160 160 230 180 70 20 1,400
Westminster 40 220 180 120 110 110 120 60 20 980
Barking 110 270 200 150 180 210 190 50 10 1,360
Barnet 120 440 360 280 260 340 320 130 40 2,280
Bexley 100 280 210 170 250 310 290 110 20 1,740
Brent 80 250 220 190 240 290 260 120 40 1,680
Bromley 100 350 280 210 260 360 380 120 20 2,100
Croydon 110 360 270 210 270 390 340 150 30 2,120
Ealing 130 400 330 200 230 270 280 110 20 1,960
Enfield 120 450 310 270 330 380 310 110 20 2,310
Haringey 50 240 270 270 240 240 210 100 20 1,640
Harrow 70 220 190 130 170 230 200 90 20 1,320
Havering 100 230 200 180 240 320 240 110 20 1,640
Hillingdon 140 430 270 180 240 290 250 90 10 1,900
Hounslow 100 340 300 190 190 250 230 110 20 1,720
Kingston upon Thames 50 200 110 90 90 160 130 40 10 900
Merton 50 190 140 110 130 170 140 70 10 980
Newham 150 470 350 240 250 290 230 70 10 2,070
Redbridge 140 410 260 200 280 290 270 100 20 1,960
Richmond upon Thames 40 170 130 80 100 170 100 50 10 840
Sutton 60 280 170 110 140 260 220 80 20 1,340
Waltham Forest 50 240 240 230 250 340 240 100 30 1,710
Birmingham 390 1,400 1,160 850 1,190 1,870 1,500 540 70 8,960
Coventry 100 330 250 230 340 610 450 180 30 2,510
Dudley 120 390 280 260 390 550 410 160 20 2,560
Sandwell 120 420 250 240 430 580 380 100 20 2,550
Solihull 110 280 200 160 220 360 290 80 10 1,720
Walsall 80 300 230 230 380 560 420 120 20 2,340
Wolverhampton 80 250 230 190 380 510 340 120 20 2,120
Knowsley 80 230 170 170 180 320 240 70 10 1,470
Liverpool 90 480 420 380 540 1,030 780 240 40 4,000
St. Helens 50 190 180 170 170 360 250 80 10 1,440
Sefton 90 340 280 250 310 520 400 190 20 2,400
Wirral 90 300 290 310 390 650 510 180 20 2,730
Bolton 130 320 330 240 320 470 430 130 20 2,390
Bury 60 190 160 150 190 310 270 70 10 1,400
Manchester 130 460 460 380 380 660 600 200 40 3,300
Oldham 90 310 270 250 290 460 340 110 20 2,120
Rochdale 90 280 190 160 270 410 290 90 10 1,770
Salford 80 270 200 150 210 370 250 80 10 1,620
Stockport 80 300 280 210 280 420 400 150 10 2,140
Tameside 70 280 180 180 210 420 340 120 10 1,810
Trafford 70 250 230 160 200 370 300 120 10 1,720
Wigan 100 310 240 230 450 610 510 160 20 2,620
Barnsley 60 210 140 160 260 370 270 80 10 1,550
Doncaster 110 340 260 200 340 600 530 140 10 2,530
Rotherham 80 270 220 220 330 540 420 140 30 2,230
Sheffield 80 360 330 300 440 840 690 220 20 3,260
Bradford 110 430 450 480 700 1,000 800 190 40 4,190
Calderdale 60 240 200 170 240 350 310 90 10 1,670
Kirklees 110 360 310 330 470 730 570 150 20 3,050
Leeds 230 750 590 590 690 1,190 1,090 320 50 5,490
Wakefield 100 370 270 220 380 550 450 140 10 2,490
Gateshead 80 230 180 150 180 370 260 80 10 1,530
Newcastle upon Tyne 90 250 180 210 290 510 370 100 10 2,010
North Tyneside 60 220 140 160 230 370 280 100 10 1,560
South Tyneside 40 150 120 120 200 300 240 120 20 1,290
Sunderland 90 300 250 230 380 560 480 170 20 2,470
Isles of Scilly 10 20
Bath and North East Somerset 40 220 150 120 160 240 210 70 10 1,210
City of Bristol 130 400 350 280 310 510 440 120 20 2,560

Under 25 25 to 29 30 to 34 35 to 39 40 to 44 45 to 49 50 to 54 55 to 59 60 and Over Total
North Somerset 50 180 150 130 180 250 240 80 10 1,270
South Gloucestershire 90 300 230 200 250 350 320 110 20 1,850
Hartlepool 40 100 80 60 120 180 150 30 780
Middlesbrough 40 160 120 100 190 280 270 70 20 1,240
Redcar and Cleveland 60 180 120 80 170 300 240 80 10 1,230
Stockton on Tees 70 210 150 140 230 330 350 110 10 1,590
City of Kingston Upon Hull 100 220 150 130 300 500 370 110 10 1,900
East Riding of Yorkshire 100 270 210 190 320 540 450 120 10 2,200
North East Lincolnshire 60 150 100 110 180 350 240 70 1,260
North Lincolnshire 50 150 100 80 180 330 220 60 10 1,180
North Yorkshire 130 520 410 390 540 780 760 270 30 3,830
York 50 150 160 110 150 230 250 70 10 1,180
Bedfordshire 100 360 280 280 430 660 590 240 30 2,960
Luton 60 200 150 150 200 300 280 100 20 1,470
Buckinghamshire 190 600 350 280 410 720 620 210 30 3,400
Milton Keynes 80 240 190 190 240 340 220 70 10 1.580
Derbyshire 220 590 420 480 740 1,120 1,040 310 30 4,930
City of Derby 80 230 180 200 290 390 330 80 20 1,790
Dorset 110 390 280 250 380 530 460 140 20 2,570
Poole 40 130 100 80 140 200 180 60 930
Bournemouth 30 140 90 90 120 230 180 60 10 960
Durham 190 460 370 360 570 950 760 250 40 3,950
Darlington 30 100 80 70 100 200 150 40 10 770
East Sussex 140 430 400 340 470 640 520 150 30 3,120
Brighton and Hove 40 210 230 180 200 290 230 70 10 1,440
Hampshire 460 1,350 910 710 1,000 1,650 1,380 510 60 8,020
Portsmouth 50 200 150 130 170 270 210 90 10 1,270
Southampton 90 250 180 140 180 280 240 80 20 1,460
Leicestershire 160 610 450 390 620 980 820 310 30 4,360
Leicester City 100 330 270 250 350 460 440 130 10 2,340
Rutland 30 20 20 30 60 50 20 230
Staffordshire 270 870 590 540 950 1,430 1,170 410 30 6,250
Stoke-on-Trent 90 240 170 170 250 450 320 110 10 1,800
Wiltshire 120 470 320 310 370 610 480 160 10 2,840
Swindon 90 220 160 120 160 260 210 100 10 1,340
Bracknell Forest 40 120 70 50 90 130 130 40 10 680
Windsor and Maidenhead 50 140 100 90 110 180 160 80 10 920
West Berkshire 60 240 160 110 160 240 190 80 10 1,250
Reading 60 140 100 70 100 170 140 60 10 830
Slough 60 160 120 70 120 150 150 60 10 900
Wokingham 40 190 110 90 160 230 220 70 20 1,130
Cambridgeshire 180 560 390 320 470 740 630 190 20 3,500
City of Peterborough 100 240 180 120 170 300 230 80 10 1,420
Cheshire 220 770 590 460 730 1,090 960 310 40 5,190
Halton 50 160 140 130 150 230 180 50 10 1,100
Warrington 70 290 180 160 210 320 260 60 10 1,560
Devon 150 520 500 440 620 1,020 840 290 40 4,400
City of Plymouth 60 270 250 260 300 390 350 130 10 2,020
Torbay 40 120 100 80 110 180 180 60 10 870
Essex 490 1,460 940 880 1,340 1,890 1,550 580 80 9,210
Southend o60 180 110 130 170 250 190 70 20 1,170
Thurrock 80 170 110 90 120 190 180 60 10 1,020
Herefordshire 40 150 100 90 190 230 250 80 20 1,150
Worcestershire 160 520 420 350 550 920 730 220 30 3,890
Kent 500 1,450 980 890 1,470 2,100 1,680 630 100 9,800
Medway 70 320 210 190 270 390 360 140 10 1,950
Lancashire 320 1,140 920 890 1,340 1,970 1,760 500 60 8,910
Blackburn and Darwen 60 140 150 160 220 280 250 80 10 1,330
Blackpool 60 160 110 100 130 230 140 50 980
Nottinghamshire 180 600 550 500 690 1,260 990 270 30 5,060
City of Nottingham 60 200 180 170 200 330 280 80 10 1,500
Shropshire 60 250 210 200 280 440 340 100 20 1,890
Telford and Wrekin 50 170 130 130 190 260 240 50 10 1,240
Cornwall 70 360 320 340 500 770 670 220 40 3,300
Cumbria 110 450 410 310 560 860 730 190 20 3,640
Gloucestershire 170 600 470 380 490 830 720 210 20 3,880
Hertfordshire 510 1,480 910 710 1,010 1,460 1,400 520 70 8,080
Isle of Wight 30 110 100 90 140 230 200 60 10 960
Lincolnshire 240 700 460 420 590 980 880 290 40 4,600
Norfolk 190 660 480 500 750 1,290 1,140 430 60 5,490
Northamptonshire 260 770 540 510 690 1,070 860 280 30 5,010
Northumberland 80 270 230 220 360 570 480 110 20 2,350
Oxfordshire 170 610 490 400 470 700 700 240 40 3,820

Under25 25 to 29 30 to 34 35 to 39 40 to 44 45 to 49 50 to 54 55 to 59 60 and Over Total
Somerset 120 390 280 310 500 710 630 180 20 3,140
Suffolk 220 660 440 400 740 1,090 940 340 50 4,860
Surrey 450 1,400 1,020 580 730 1,140 1,020 420 70 6,830
Warwickshire 190 570 350 300 450 810 690 220 30 3,610
West Sussex 180 790 580 520 730 1,020 840 270 40 4,980
England 16,040 53,260 41,160 35,720 50,030 76,460 63,960 21,460 3,050 361,140

Note: — less than five.

Age details of part-time teachers have not been given because about 10 per cent. to 20 per cent. of part-timers are not recorded on the Teachers' Pension Scheme, from which the data are obtained.

Paul Holmes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when she will publish the volume of statistics on teachers. [39220].

Mr. Timms

The 2001 volume of Teachers in England (including teachers pay for England and Wales) was published on Friday, 22 February 2002. A copy has been placed in the library. Further copies can be obtained from The Stationery Office (ISBN 0-11-271127-8) or online at http:/www.dfes.gov.uk/statistics/DBNOL/ v0319/index.html.

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