22 May 2006 : Column 1380W—continued
Teaching
Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the starting salary of a (a) teacher and (b) classroom assistant in Hartlepool constituency was in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2005. [72615]
Jim Knight: The Department does not hold local information about teachers or support staff pay. The School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document sets out national pay scales for teachers. From April 1997 the minimum starting salary for qualified teachers with a good honours degree was £14,280 and from December 1997 was £14,463. From April 2005 the minimum starting salary for a qualified teacher was £19,023 and from September 2005 was £19,161.
Salaries for support staff are determined locally and records are not available centrally with regard to the Single Status Agreement which was introduced by the National Joint Council for local government services.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will list which maintained schools teach Mandarin. [71557]
Jim Knight [holding answer 17 May 2006]: Information is not collected on the subjects taught in schools. However, it is possible to provide figures on the number of schools where at least one pupil has been entered for a particular subject. It is not possible, however, to say whether the school has actually taught the subject or whether the pupil has been entered privately.
The number of maintained schools where at least one 15-year-old(1) pupil was entered for a GCSE full course in Chinese(2) in 2005(3) was 500. A full list of these schools has been placed in the House Library.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in maintained schools in England are being taught Mandarin. [70799]
Jim Knight [holding answer 15 May 2006]: The Department does not hold information on how many children learn languages, only the number taking these exams in England. In 2005 there were 822 15-year-olds(1,2) taking GCSE Chinese(3) in maintained schools.
Mrs. Maria Miller: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many mathematics teacher vacancies there are in each (a) local authority area and (b) region in England; and if he will make a statement. [71376]
Jim Knight [holding answer 18 May 2006]: The following table provides the number of mathematics teacher vacancies in maintained secondary schools by local authority and Government office region, in January 2005 and January 2006. Information for 2006 is provisional and is not yet available at local authority level.
22 May 2006 : Column 1381W
The mathematics vacancy rate in maintained secondary schools in England for January 2005 was1.2 per cent. compared to the provisional 2006 figure of 1.0 per cent.
| Number of full-time and part-time mathematic teacher vacancies( 1) in maintained secondary schools in England, January 2005 and 2006 |
| Vacancies |
| | 2005 | 2006( 2) |
| | Full-time | Part-time | Full-time | Part-time |
|
Darlington
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Hartlepool
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Middlesbrough
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Redcar and Cleveland
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Stockton on Tees
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Durham
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Northumberland
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Gateshead
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
North Tyneside
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
South Tyneside
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Sunderland
|
4
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
North East
|
9
|
0
|
7
|
1
|
| | | | | |
|
Blackburn with Darwen
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Blackpool
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Halton
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Warrington
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Cheshire
|
0
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Cumbria
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bolton
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bury
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Manchester
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Old ham
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Rochdale
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Salford
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Stockport
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Tameside
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Trafford
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Wigan
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Lancashire
|
13
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Knowsley
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Liverpool
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
St. Helens
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Sefton
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Wirral
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
North West
|
32
|
1
|
11
|
0
|
| | | | | |
|
East Riding of Yorkshire
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
City of Kingston Upon Hull
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
North East Lincolnshire
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
North Lincolnshire
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
York
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Barnsley
|
2
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Doncaster
|
4
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Rotherham
|
1
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Sheffield
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bradford
|
2
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
22 May 2006 : Column 1382W
|
Calderdale
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Kirklees
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Leeds
|
7
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Wakefield
|
0
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Yorkshire and the Humber
|
27
|
5
|
18
|
3
|
| | | | | |
|
Derby
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Leicester
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Nottingham
|
4
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Rutland
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Derbyshire
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Leicestershire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Lincolnshire
|
1
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
5
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
East Midlands
|
16
|
1
|
12
|
1
|
| | | | | |
|
Herefordshire
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Stoke on Trent
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Telford and Wrekin
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Shropshire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Staffordshire
|
4
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Warwickshire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Birmingham
|
5
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Coventry
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Dudley
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Sandwell
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Solihull
|
2
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Walsall
|
5
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Wolverhampton
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Worcestershire
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
West Midlands
|
31
|
2
|
24
|
5
|
| | | | | |
|
Luton
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Peterborough
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Southend on Sea
|
2
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Thurrock
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bedfordshire
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Cambridgeshire
|
3
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Essex
|
6
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Hertfordshire
|
10
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Norfolk
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Suffolk
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
East of England
|
31
|
3
|
34
|
2
|
| | | | | |
|
Camden
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
City of London
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Hackney
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Hammersmith and Fulham
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Haringey
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Islington
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Kensington and Chelsea
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Lambeth
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Lewisham
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Newham
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
22 May 2006 : Column 1383W
|
Southwark
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Tower Hamlets
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Wandsworth
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
City of Westminster
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Barking and Dagenham
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Barnet
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bexley
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Brent
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bromley
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Croydon
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Ealing
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Enfield
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Greenwich
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Harrow
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Havering
|
4
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Hillingdon
|
5
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Hounslow
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Kingston upon Thames
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Merton
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Redbridge
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Richmond upon Thames
|
4
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Sutton
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Waltham Forest
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
London
|
41
|
0
|
34
|
2
|
| | | | | |
|
Bracknell Forest
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Brighton and Hove
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Isle of Wight
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Medway
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Milton Keynes
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Portsmouth
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Reading
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Slough
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Southampton
|
3
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
West Berkshire
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Windsor and Maidenhead
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Wokingham
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Buckinghamshire
|
8
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
East Sussex
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Hampshire
|
3
|
2
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Kent
|
3
|
2
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Oxfordshire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Surrey
|
4
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
West Sussex
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
South East
|
34
|
5
|
44
|
2
|
| | | | | |
|
Bath and North East Somerset
|
0
|
1
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Bournemouth
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
City of Bristol
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
North Somerset
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Plymouth
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Poole
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
22 May 2006 : Column 1384W
|
South Gloucestershire
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Swindon
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Torbay
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Cornwall
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Isles of Scilly
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Devon
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Dorset
|
1
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Gloucestershire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Somerset
|
0
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
Wiltshire
|
2
|
0
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
South West
|
10
|
1
|
8
|
1
|
| | | | | |
|
England
|
231
|
18
|
192
|
17
|
n/a = not available (1) Advertised vacancies for permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term’s duration). Posts filled by somebody on a contract of a term or more are not counted as being vacant. (2) Provisional Source: Survey of teachers in service and teacher vacancies, 618g.
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