§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many responses his Department has received to the 2003 staffing survey; how many responses his Department had received by 16 April; and to how many schools the survey was originally sent. [122984]
§ Mr. MilibandThe Secondary Schools Curriculum and Staffing Survey was originally sent to a sample of 833 maintained secondary schools in England. When the statistical first release August 2003 "Secondary Schools Curriculum and Staffing Survey: November 2002 (provisional)" was published on 16 April 2003 180 schools had returned the survey. Since publication a further 25 schools have returned the survey, bringing the total number of schools to return the survey to date to 205.
As I informed the House on 17 March, it is the Government's intention to publish final results of the survey in September. We remain on course to meet this target.