§ Mr. CollinsTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what roles education employees counted in the Office for National Statistics survey of public sector employees published in May fulfilled, broken down by (a) job title and (b) salary. [183155]
§ Ruth KellyThe information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Tim Collins, dated 19 July 2004:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question about public sector employees. (183155)The estimates of public sector employees in the UK published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) are based on survey sources that do not capture information on job title or salary, and so the ONS is unable to provide the data requested. The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) publishes information on the school workforce in England, and provisional data for January 2004 were published in a DfES statistical First Release on 29 April 2004. The ONS and DfES data sets are not directly comparable due to differences in geographical coverage, 41W and the fact that ONS estimates are headcounts while DfES estimates are calculated in terms of full-time equivalents. Additionally, DfES publishes information on teachers' pay, for both England and Wales, in a document "School Workforce in England". Information on teachers' pay is given in tables 32 to 38 in the most recent edition, which relates to 2003. It can be accessed via the DfES website at: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000443/index.shtml.Information on the school work forces in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is published by the relevant devolved administration.