HC Deb 13 March 2003 vol 401 cc404-5W
Mr. Gibb

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to his answer of 3 March 2003, ref: 99626, how many(a) French, (b) German and (c) Spanish teachers qualified in each year since 1995. [102154]

Mr. Miliband

The table provides a breakdown of the numbers qualifying as teachers in England1 with a modern language as their subject.

Table 1: Number of grammar schools1 by local education authority2 in England: 2000
Barnet 3
Bexley 4
Birmingham 8
Bournemouth3 2
Bromley 2
Buckinghamshire3 13
Calderdale 2
Cumbria 1
Devon3 1
Enfield 1
Essex3 4
Gloucestershire 7
Kent3 33
Kingston upon Thames 2
Kirklees 1
Lancashire3 4
Lincolnshire 15
Liverpool 1
Medway3 6
North Yorkshire3 3
Plymouth3 3
Poole3 2
Reading3 2
Redbridge 2
Slough3 4
Southend-on-Sea3 4
Stoke-on-Trent3 1
Sutton 5
Telford and Wrekin 2
Torbay3 3
Trafford 7
Walsall 2
Warwickshire 5

Table 1: Number of grammar schools1 by local education authority2 in England: 2000
Wiltshire3 2
Wirral 6
Wolverhampton 1
1 Grammar schools as defined under the 1998 School Framework Act.
2 Local education authorities without grammar schools have not been shown.
3 Local education authority areas affected by the 1996–98 local government reorganisation.

Table 2: Number of grammar schools as reported in the annual schools' census by local education authority1 in England as at January of each year
1980 1990
Avon 2 2
Barnet 2 2
Berkshire 8 6
Bexley 2 2
Birmingham 7 8
Bolton 6
Bromley 3 2
Buckinghamshire 14 14
Calderdale 7 2
Cornwall 2
Cumbria 4
Derbyshire 1
Devon 11 8
Dorset 11 6
Durham 1
Enfield 1 1
Essex 9 8
Gloucestershire 11 7
Hereford and Worcester 2
Inner London Education Authority 3
Kent 19 29
Kingston upon Thames 2 2
Kirklees 2 1
Lancashire 5 4
Lincolnshire 16 15
Liverpool 10
Norfolk 10
North Yorkshire 7 3
Redbridge 2 2
Shropshire 4 2
Staffordshire 2
Sutton 4 4
Tameside 5
Trafford 8 6
Walsall 2 2
Warwickshire 5 5
Wiltshire 3 2
Wirral 4 4
Wolverhampton 1 1
1 Local education authorities without grammar schools have not been shown