Supply Teachers (Buckinghamshire)

HC Deb 08 April 2003 vol 403 cc188-9W

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many supply teachers are working in Buckinghamshire; and what percentage supply teachers represent of the total number of teachers in Buckinghamshire expressed as full-time equivalents. [106985]

Mr. Miliband

The table shows the full-time equivalent (FTE) number of regular teachers and number of occasional teachers in service in the maintained schools sector in Buckinghamshire in January 2002.

	Number of teachers
Regular teachers1	4,030
Occasional teachers2	120
All teachers	4,150
Occasional teachers as percentage of all teachers	3%

¹ All teachers (FTE) on contracts of a month or more in service on the survey date (17 January 2002).

² Teachers on contracts of less than one month in service for the whole of the day on the survey date.

Note:

Teacher numbers rounded to nearest 10.

Source:

DfES annual 618G survey.