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University Teachers (Pay)

Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what is the average level of pay of a university teacher with 10 years' experience; and what it was in 1980 in 1996 prices. [7630]

Mrs. Gillan: The information requested is not available.

Publicity

Mr. Donohoe: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what promotional and public information campaigns her Department is (a) currently running and (b) planning to run during the next six months; and for each campaign (i) how much it will cost, (1) in total and (2) to her Department, (ii) what agencies or bodies are undertaking the work and (iii) what is its planned duration. [7419]

Mr. Robin Squire: The Department is currently running or planning to run the following campaigns:

	Estimated cost of project (£000)	Duration
Career development loans	(15)605	Current to May 1997
Disability Discrimination Act	(16)700	January to February 1997
Employment service employer campaign	250	January to February 1997
Just the job	823	January to February 1997
Modern apprenticeships	310	January to February 1997
National training awards	(15)250	February to May 1997
Nursery vouchers	2,200	Current to March 1997
Primary school performance tables	(15)2,000	March to July 1997
Small firms training loans	200	Current to March 1997

(15) Contains an estimate of costs from 1997-98 budgets, which are yet to be finalised.

(16) Includes a contribution to the permanent Disability Discrimination Act helpline shared with the Department of Social Security.

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Promotional and public information campaigns are defined in this answer as multi-media campaigns containing newspaper, radio, TV or poster advertising in addition to leaflet production and distribution. All the advertising work was placed through the Central Office of Information in accordance with normal practice. A range of other contractors worked on various aspects of the campaigns.

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The costs given are the total costs of the campaigns. It would be possible to disaggregate the costs of the Department's own staff in arranging and supervising the campaigns only at disproportionate cost.

Teacher Training

Mr. Kirkwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people (a) applied for places on teacher training courses in England and Wales and (b) successfully completed teacher training courses in each year since 1992; and if he will make a statement. [7295]

Mr. Forth: The available information is given in the following tables.

Applicants to initial teacher training(17) coursesEngland and Wales

	Courses starting in Autumn of:
	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996
Postgraduate	31,700	34,400	32,400	33,800	33,200
Undergraduate(18)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	34,000
Total	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	67,300

(17) Includes School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) applicants only if applying through the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR).

(18) Reliable undergraduate information is not available prior to 1996.

n/a = not available.

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Numbers of successful completers from initial teacher training(19) coursesEngland and Wales

	Calendar year
	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996(20)
Postgraduate	13,600	15,100	16,200	17,300	n/a
Undergraduate(20)	7,400	8,300	9,400	10,500	n/a
Total	20,900	23,400	25,600	27,700	n/a

(19) Includes SCITT completers.

(20) Information not yet available.

n/a = not available.

Nursery Education

Mr. Kirkwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) how many children under the age of five years have (a) full-time and (b) part-time places in (i) nursery classes in schools, (ii) nursery schools and (iii) reception classes in schools, by local eduation authority; and if he will make a statement; [7296]

(2) what percentage of children under the age of five years currently have (a) full-time and (b) part-time places in (i) nursery classes in schools, (ii) nursery schools and (iii) reception classes in schools, by local education authority; and if he will make a statement. [7297]

Mr. Robin Squire: The information requested is shown in the following table.

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Number and percentage of children under five years of age in maintained nursery and primary schools in EnglandJanuary 1996

	Number of pupils
	Nursery schools			Primary schools
			Nursery classes		Other classes
	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time
Camden	43	34	531	441	984	0
Greenwich	344	334	458	2,208	1,087	16
Hackney	62	88	776	1,316	1,585	12
Hammersmith and Fulham	322	231	621	557	558	1
Islington	159	159	983	607	1,475	0
Kensington and Chelsea	174	76	430	171	368	0
Lambeth	190	260	546	1,437	1,020	36
Lewisham	100	130	417	2,106	1,065	58
Southwark	225	270	734	1,836	2,060	0
Tower Hamlets	446	260	1,763	1,076	1,531	16
Wandsworth	120	86	809	1,372	1,662	6
Westminster	45	150	464	587	529	15
Barking and Dagenham	0	0	3	2,098	1,543	0
Barnet	24	557	1	1,962	2,047	106
Bexley	0	0	9	1,524	2,016	6
Brent	218	2	772	1,608	2,064	2
Bromley	0	0	6	177	2,393	2
Croydon	0	500	0	1,648	2,864	24
Ealing	16	455	0	3,350	2,458	0
Enfield	0	0	0	1,682	2,376	41
Haringey	163	35	503	2,068	1,867	38
Harrow	0	0	0	1,029	1,605	0
Havering	0	0	14	538	1,943	0
Hillingdon	0	120	2	3,261	46	105
Hounslow	0	0	3	2,393	1,691	2
Kingston upon Thames	60	151	6	1,117	504	570
Merton	0	0	0	2,711	763	244
Newham	99	890	79	3,507	1,278	1
Redbridge	0	0	26	1,404	1,319	188
Richmond upon Thames	5	67	0	791	92	1,068
Sutton	0	240	8	1,701	69	5
Waltham Forest	39	286	97	2,395	1,034	17
Birmingham	755	1,663	1,883	6,916	9,987	42
Coventry	6	132	39	1,908	2,815	2
Dudley	12	62	104	3,092	2,672	4
Sandwell	71	57	87	4,341	2,845	67
Solihull	0	0	0	1,872	1,989	1
Walsall	43	791	49	3,505	2,395	1
Wolverhampton	1	759	3	3,149	2,224	0
Knowsley	0	0	2	2,955	1,659	14
Liverpool	210	329	946	4,675	4,201	11
St. Helens	0	165	0	1,455	1,599	1
Sefton	0	318	9	2,555	2,531	1
Wirral	20	275	2	1,954	2,910	26
Bolton	28	475	363	2,306	2,500	3
Bury	52	108	219	1,246	1,636	0
Manchester	419	125	4,225	2,538	2,429	3
Oldham	0	0	957	1,495	2,168	0
Rochdale	35	899	142	1,167	2,046	2
Salford	517	592	1,853	701	2,037	15
Stockport	135	741	0	1,312	2,501	4
Tameside	0	236	5	2,355	2,143	0
Trafford	0	0	16	2,624	1,828	0
Wigan	24	157	0	1,986	2,776	2
Barnsley	0	180	0	2,777	1,074	50
Doncaster	0	0	62	3,592	2,756	0
Rotherham	0	397	90	2,860	1,199	1
Sheffield	111	745	237	4,636	2,150	381
Bradford	197	326	153	5,874	4,107	156
Calderdale	0	0	248	1,697	1,780	0
Kirklees	0	558	0	3,917	3,461	11
Leeds	0	53	95	8,832	5,749	22
Wakefield	0	478	16	4,319	1,703	115
Gateshead	4	66	8	1,848	1,686	0
Newcastle upon Tyne	581	37	734	1,447	2,247	3
North Tyneside	53	190	43	2,385	1,671	0
South Tyneside	18	417	0	1,791	1,373	0
Sunderland	75	938	38	2,627	2,628	0
Avon	681	1,165	239	3,182	7,777	5
Bedfordshire	259	1,213	339	3,443	2,043	929
Berkshire	128	2,032	196	4,631	803	119
Buckinghamshire	0	561	37	2,744	1,142	1,880
Cambridgeshire	24	697	4	1,529	5,838	16
Cheshire	31	819	13	4,706	8,518	33
Cleveland	0	145	7	9,865	5,312	12
Cornwall(21)	19	98	0	1,572	1,905	1,679
Cumbria	0	833	1	2,636	4,116	4
Derbyshire	134	1,434	190	8,057	4,617	1,354
Devon	54	253	108	2,738	3,982	84
Dorset	0	0	0	800	1,222	3,653
Durham	0	2,496	0	4,829	5,234	1
East Sussex	1	178	0	1,784	2,559	2,688
Essex	0	297	56	3,036	7,751	1,649
Gloucestershire	0	0	0	22	4,370	18
Hampshire	6	380	2	1,633	10,622	2,689
Hereford and Worcester	0	0	76	2,103	2,846	31
Hertfordshire	33	1,727	20	8,120	4,901	580
Humberside	218	928	740	7,483	5,727	42
Isle of Wight	0	0	0	170	960	0
Kent	0	85	0	2,382	10,421	2,839
Lancashire	5	3,599	28	4,531	12,614	3
Leicestershire	0	50	1,535	3,505	4,793	131
Lincolnshire	52	488	40	1,769	4,854	26
Norfolk	2	412	0	995	3,885	1,606
North Yorkshire	2	356	95	3,475	5,007	191
Northamptonshire	0	731	31	2,570	5,474	17
Northumberland	36	86	2	2,988	2,492	4
Nottinghamshire	2	573	238	13,312	1,952	200
Oxfordshire	60	1,012	85	2,220	849	382
Shropshire	0	176	0	2,149	1,820	263
Somerset	0	0	3	604	3,847	26
Staffordshire	554	1,429	1,589	3,764	9,018	57
Suffolk	0	100	3	3,203	2,584	22
Surrey	106	330	16	2,786	4,833	2,653
Warwickshire	0	756	0	1,352	4,176	2
West Sussex	17	443	0	821	2,914	27
Wiltshire	0	0	5	787	3,473	157
England (21) (22)	8,645	43,532	28,405	283,689	314,633	29,589

(21) Includes Isles of Scilly.

(22) Includes Corporation of London.

- Negligible (i.e. less than 0.05 per cent.).

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January 1996

		Percentage of population
	Nursery schools			Primary schools
			Nursery classes		Other classes
	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time	Full-time	Part-time
Camden	1.0	0.8	12.5	10.4	23.2	0.0
Greenwich	5.2	5.0	6.9	33.2	16.4	0.2
Hackney	0.9	1.3	11.6	19.6	23.6	0.2
Hammersmith and Fulham	8.1	5.8	15.7	14.1	14.1	--
Islington	3.1	3.1	19.0	11.7	28.4	0.0
Kensington and Chelsea	5.6	2.4	13.8	5.5	11.8	0.0
Lambeth	2.4	3.3	7.0	18.4	13.0	0.5
Lewisham	1.4	1.8	5.6	28.5	14.4	0.8
Southwark	3.0	3.6	9.7	24.3	27.3	0.0
Tower Hamlets	7.6	4.4	30.1	18.4	26.2	0.3
Wandsworth	1.7	1.2	11.2	19.0	23.0	0.1
Westminster	1.1	3.8	11.8	14.9	13.4	0.4
Barking and Dagenham	0.0	0.0	0.1	46.1	33.9	0.0
Barnet	0.3	6.8	--	23.8	24.8	1.3
Bexley	0.0	0.0	0.1	24.9	33.0	0.1
Brent	3.1	--	10.8	22.6	29.0	--
Bromley	0.0	0.0	0.1	2.5	33.4	--
Croydon	0.0	5.4	0.0	17.7	30.7	0.3
Ealing	0.2	5.5	0.0	40.4	29.7	0.0
Enfield	0.0	0.0	0.0	21.6	30.5	0.5
Haringey	2.6	0.6	8.1	33.2	30.0	0.6
Harrow	0.0	0.0	0.0	18.5	28.9	0.0
Havering	0.0	0.0	0.3	10.1	36.3	0.0
Hillingdon	0.0	1.8	--	47.9	0.7	1.5
Hounslow	0.0	0.0	0.0	39.5	27.9	--
Kingston upon Thames	1.7	4.4	0.2	32.5	14.7	16.6
Merton	0.0	0.0	0.0	54.0	15.2	4.9
Newham	1.1	10.2	0.9	40.2	14.7	--
Redbridge	0.0	0.0	0.4	21.7	20.4	2.9
Richmond upon Thames	0.1	1.7	0.0	19.7	2.3	26.6
Sutton	0.0	5.0	0.2	35.2	1.4	0.1
Waltham Forest	0.5	4.0	1.4	33.6	14.5	0.2
Birmingham	2.4	5.2	5.9	21.6	31.2	0.1
Coventry	0.1	1.5	0.5	22.4	33.0	--
Dudley	0.1	0.7	1.3	37.2	32.2	--
Sandwell	0.8	0.7	1.0	50.3	33.0	0.8
Solihull	0.0	0.0	0.0	37.4	39.7	--
Walsall	0.6	10.5	0.7	46.7	31.9	--
Wolverhampton	--	10.5	--	43.7	30.8	0.0
Knowsley	0.0	0.0	--	62.9	35.3	0.3
Liverpool	1.6	2.5	7.1	35.0	31.5	0.1
St. Helens	0.0	3.4	0.0	30.0	33.0	--
Sefton	0.0	4.4	0.1	35.6	35.2	--
Wirral	0.2	3.2	--	22.7	33.9	0.3
Bolton	0.4	6.2	4.8	30.3	32.9	--
Bury	1.0	2.1	4.3	24.7	32.5	0.0
Manchester	3.1	0.9	30.8	18.5	17.7	--
Oldham	0.0	0.0	14.3	22.4	32.5	0.0
Rochdale	0.5	13.9	2.2	18.1	31.7	--
Salford	7.8	8.9	28.0	10.6	30.8	0.2
Stockport	1.8	9.8	0.0	17.4	33.2	0.1
Tameside	0.0	3.6	0.1	36.1	32.8	0.0
Trafford	0.0	0.0	0.3	45.1	31.4	0.0
Wigan	0.3	1.8	0.0	22.9	32.0	--
Barnsley	0.0	2.9	0.0	44.4	17.2	0.8
Doncaster	0.0	0.0	0.8	43.7	33.5	0.0
Rotherham	0.0	5.6	1.3	40.0	16.8	--
Sheffield	0.8	5.5	1.7	34.2	15.9	2.8
Bradford	1.3	2.2	1.0	39.3	27.5	1.0
Calderdale	0.0	0.0	4.5	30.8	32.3	0.0
Kirklees	0.0	5.1	0.0	35.7	31.5	0.1
Leeds	0.0	0.3	0.5	45.6	29.7	0.1
Wakefield	0.0	5.4	0.2	48.7	19.2	1.3
Gateshead	0.1	1.3	0.2	35.9	32.7	0.0
Newcastle upon Tyne	7.9	0.5	10.0	19.7	30.7	--
North Tyneside	1.1	3.9	0.9	48.9	34.3	0.0
South Tyneside	0.4	10.2	0.0	44.0	33.7	0.0
Sunderland	0.9	11.3	0.5	31.8	31.8	0.0
Avon	2.7	4.7	1.0	12.8	31.3	--
Bedfordshire	1.6	7.4	2.1	21.1	12.5	5.7
Berkshire	0.6	9.4	0.9	21.5	3.7	0.6
Buckinghamshire	0.0	3.0	0.2	14.5	6.0	9.9
Cambridgeshire	0.1	3.7	--	8.1	31.1	0.1
Cheshire	0.1	3.2	0.1	18.2	32.9	0.1
Cleveland	0.0	0.9	--	62.3	33.6	0.1
Cornwall(23)	0.2	0.9	0.0	14.3	17.3	15.2
Cumbria	0.0	6.7	--	21.4	33.3	--
Derbyshire	0.5	5.7	0.8	32.0	18.3	5.4
Devon	0.2	1.0	0.4	11.1	16.1	0.3
Dorset	0.0	0.0	0.0	5.3	8.2	24.4
Durham	0.0	15.9	0.0	30.8	33.4	--
East Sussex	--	1.1	0.0	10.7	15.4	16.1
Essex	0.0	0.7	0.1	7.4	18.9	4.0
Gloucestershire	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	31.3	0.1
Hampshire	--	0.9	--	4.0	25.7	6.5
Hereford and Worcester	0.0	0.0	0.4	11.8	16.0	0.2
Hertfordshire	0.1	6.3	0.1	29.5	17.8	2.1
Humberside	0.9	3.9	3.1	31.4	24.0	0.2
Isle of Wight	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.4	30.0	0.0
Kent	0.0	0.2	0.0	5.9	25.7	7.0
Lancashire	--	9.4	0.1	11.8	33.0	--
Leicestershire	0.0	0.2	6.1	14.0	19.1	0.5
Lincolnshire	0.4	3.4	0.3	12.2	33.5	0.2
Norfolk	--	2.2	0.0	5.4	21.1	8.7
North Yorkshire	--	2.0	0.5	19.9	28.7	1.1
Northamptonshire	0.0	4.3	0.2	15.1	32.1	0.1
Northumberland	0.5	1.2	--	41.0	34.2	0.1
Nottinghamshire	--	2.1	0.9	48.5	7.1	0.7
Oxfordshire	0.4	6.0	0.5	13.2	5.1	2.3
Shropshire	0.0	1.6	0.0	19.8	16.8	2.4
Somerset	0.0	0.0	--	5.2	32.9	0.2
Staffordshire	2.0	5.2	5.8	13.8	33.0	0.2
Suffolk	0.0	0.6	--	18.4	14.8	0.1
Surrey	0.4	1.3	0.1	10.6	18.4	10.1
Warwickshire	0.0	6.2	0.0	11.0	34.1	--
West Sussex	0.1	2.6	0.0	4.8	17.1	0.2
Wiltshire	0.0	0.0	0.0	5.0	22.0	1.0
England(23)(24)	0.7	3.3	2.2	21.7	24.1	2.3

(23) Includes Isles of Scilly.

(24) Includes Corporation of London.

-- Negligible (i.e. less than 0.05 per cent.).

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