Written question asked by Lord Foster of Bath (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 11 November 1997, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 14 November 1997. It was answered by Stephen Byers (Labour) on Friday, 14 November 1997 on behalf of the Department for Education and Employment.

Dept for Education and Employment

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, how many head teacher and deputy head teacher posts are currently vacant in local education authority maintained (a) secondary and (b) primary schools. - Inc table.

Answer: Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many head teacher and deputy head teacher posts are currently vacant in local education authority maintained (a) secondary and (b) primary schools. [16090] Mr. Byers: The number of head teacher and deputy head teacher vacancies, at January 1997, in local education authority maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England is shown in the following table. Vacancies in grant maintained schools are not included. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Grade of post vacant{1} Nursery/primary Secondary Head teacher 122 29 Deputy head 202 31 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Only those posts which were advertised at 16 January 1997 as full-time permanent posts or posts of at least one term's duration are counted as vacancies.

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