§ Mr. AllanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if teachers who teach in accommodation centres for asylum seekers will be required to have completed initial teacher training. [57618]
Nursery/primary vacancy rates LEA 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Former Hereford and Worcestershire 0.0 0.0 — — — Herefordshire — — 0.3 1.4 1.2 Worcestershire — — 0.4 0.2 0.0 Total former Hereford and Worcester area 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.5 0.3 Former Nottinghamshire 0.0 0.0 — — — Nottinghamshire — — 0.0 0.0 0.0 Nottingham — — 0.0 1.7 1.4 Total former Nottinghamshire area 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.4 Lincolnshire 0.9 1.7 0.5 0.5 0.3 Oxfordshire 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.5
Secondary vacancy rates LEA 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Former Hereford and Worcestershire 0.1 0.2 — — — Herefordshire — — 0.8 0.6 2.0 Worcestershire — — 0.2 0.1 0.3 Total former Hereford and Worcester area 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.2 0.6 Former Nottinghamshire 0.0 0.0 — — — Nottinghamshire — — 0.0 0.0 0.0 Nottingham — — 0.0 0.8 2.7 Total former Nottinghamshire area 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.2 0.6 Lincolnshire 0.5 0.9 0.5 0.3 0.5 Oxfordshire 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.3 Two sites are under consideration in Wales and Scotland, and two further sites in England have been found to be unsuitable and rejected.
1 Local education authorities created by local government reorganisation in 1998 are shown under their parent authority. To allow comparisons between years, the vacancy data for new authorities have been aggregated to give total rates for the former authority areas.
2 Data for January 2002 are not yet available at local education authority level. Information on vacancies in January 2002 by local education authority will be published in the Teachers in England statistical volume in December 2002.
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§ Mr. TimmsNo decision has yet been taken as to whether those who will teach in the accommodation centres for asylum seekers will be required to have completed initial teacher training.
§ Mr. AllanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the vacancy rates for each of the last five years for(a) primary teachers and (b) secondary teachers in each of the eight local education authorities in which the Government are proposing to locate an accommodation centre for asylum seekers. [57619]
§ Mr. TimmsMy right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department is currently proposing to locate an accommodation centre for asylum seekers in the following three English local education authorities: Worcestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. A site in Lincolnshire is currently being evaluated.
The vacancy rates in maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools in these local education authorities1 in the last five years for which we have data2 are as follows: