§ Mr. CollinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many new teachers entered full-time teaching in each year since 1990. [167557]
§ Mr. MilibandThe following table shows the number of newly qualified teachers entering full-time service in maintained schools in England in each year from 1989–90 to 2001–02, the latest period for which information is available.
Number 1989–90 12,700 1990–91 12,300 1991–92 12,700 1992–93 13,900 1993–94 16,700 1994–95 16,600 1995–96 16,300 1996–97 17,100 1997–98 18,000 1998–99 16,800 1999–2000 17,600 2000–01 16,900 2001–02 17,700 Source: Database of Teacher Records.
§ Mr. CollinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many registered teachers were recorded as working in a non-teaching capacity in each year since 1997; [167563]
(2) how many registered teachers worked for local education authorities in a non-teaching capacity in each year since 1997. [167564]
§ Mr. MilibandThis information is not collected centrally.
§ Mr. CollinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people have qualified as(a) teachers and (b) advanced skills teachers in each year since 1997. [167577]
§ Mr. MilibandThe following table gives the numbers of people who successfully completed initial teacher training courses in each academic year between 1996/97 and 2001/02, the latest period for which information is available. The table excludes teachers who gained 815W qualified teacher status through employment based routes because the information was not available until 2001/02. In that year 2,210 teachers gained qualified teacher status by those routes.
Number 1996/97 25,310 1997/98 24,040 1998/99 24,070 1999/2000 21,690 2000/01 22,640 2001/02 23,280 Source: Teacher Training Agency. The following table gives the numbers of teachers who have been successfully assessed for advanced skills teacher status in each financial year between 1998–99 and 2003–04. These assessments commenced in July 1998.
Number 1998–99 142 1999–2000 480 2000–01 120 2001–02 865 2002–03 1,895 2003–04 1,145 Source: Westminster Education Consultants, National Assessment Agency.
§ Mr. KaufmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teacher vacancies there were in Manchester, Gorton on the latest date for which figures are available; and what steps he is taking to reduce them. [167458]
§ Mr. MilibandThe information is not available in the form requested. In January 2003, there were two advertised vacancies for full-time permanent teachers in maintained schools in the Manchester local education authority area.
§ Mr. PickthallTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures he is taking to ensure that fully-qualified teachers employed by Social Services have parity of pay and conditions with colleagues in mainstream schools. [168176]
§ Mr. MilibandNone. My right hon. Friend has no responsibility for the pay and conditions of service of teachers employed by Social Services.