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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the number of (a) part-time teachers, (b) teachers recruited from overseas and (c) supply teachers employed by Lancashire Education Authority in (i) 1997, (ii) 1998, (iii) 1999, (iv) 2000 and (v) 2001. [153155] Ms Estelle Morris: Part-time teachers and qualified short-term supply teachers on contracts of under one month employed in the maintained schools sector in Lancashire local authority are as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. January Part-time teachers (headcount) Supply teachers{ 1} 1997 1,690 560 1998 1,760 510 1999 1,880 400 2000 1,850 510 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Supply teachers employed for a full day on the day of the count. Supply teachers on contracts of one month or more cannot be separately identified from teachers in regular service and are not included in the table. Note: All numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10 Teachers recruited from overseas are not collected centrally. Teacher numbers for January 2001 are not yet available. The Local Government Reorganisation affected Lancashire on 1 April 1998. From this date, Lancashire split to become three authorities: Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool. The figures in the table for 1999 and 2000 are the addition of the three new authorities. The number of regular teachers (ie excluding short-term supply) in maintained schools in England increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000. There was a growth of more than 2000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999-2000 and 2000-01, the first such increase since 1992-93. From April 2001 new graduate recruits can expect to earn £17,000 a year (up 6 per cent. from the previous year) and starting salaries in inner London will rise to £20,000 (up 9 per cent. from the previous year).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

153155; 364 c737-8W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Conditions of employment Contracts Local education authorities Recruitment Staff Part-time employment Migrant workers Schools Teachers Supply teachers Lancashire

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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