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Specialist Schools: Finance
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what recurrent additional capital funding specialist schools receive to support their specialism; and if he will make a statement. [236540]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Specialist Schools: Languages
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 900W, on specialist schools: languages, which specialist schools have chosen languages as one of their specialisms. [238854]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Specialist Schools: Science
Mr. Gibb: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families pursuant to the answer of 10 November 2008, Official Report, column 900W, on specialist schools: science, which specialist schools have chosen science as one of their specialisms. [238855]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Students: Barnet
Mr. Dismore: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families if he will investigate the time taken to process applications for student support in the London Borough of Barnet; and if he will make a statement. [226241]
Jim Knight:
This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) who operate the education maintenance allowance (EMA) for the Department for
Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and hold information about applications made under the scheme. Mark Haysom, the LSC's chief executive, will write to the hon. Member for Hendon with the information requested and a copy of his reply will be placed in the House Library.
Sure Start Programme: Stoke on Trent
Joan Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many Sure Start children's centres have opened in Stoke-on-Trent since the scheme's inception; and if he will make a statement. [239491]
Beverley Hughes: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Teachers
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many qualified (a) teachers and (b) male teachers under the age of 60 years are not currently teaching. [239868]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Teachers: Males
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools were male in each year since 1997. [240018]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Teachers: Manpower
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teachers worked in maintained schools in Crosby constituency in 1997; and how many do so in 2008. [236673]
Jim Knight: The following table provides the number of full-time equivalent teachers employed in local authority maintained schools in England, January 1997 and 2008.
| Full-time equivalent teachers in local authority maintained schools, 1997 and 2008, Crosby constituency and England | ||
| As at January : | Crosby constituency( 1) | England( 2) |
| (1) Source: School Census. (2) Annual Survey of Teachers in Service and Teacher Vacancies, 618 g. Notes: 1. Includes qualified and unqualified teachers. 2. Excludes academies and city technology colleges. 3. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10. | ||
Teachers: Pay
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average starting salary (a) inside and (b) outside London was for newly qualified teachers in each of the last 10 years. [235110]
Jim Knight: The following table provides the average salary of newly qualified entrants to full-time teaching in local authority maintained schools in London, outside London and England, in each March 1998 to 2007.
| Average salary of newly qualified entrants( 1) to full-time teaching in local authority maintained schools: Years 1998 to 2007—Coverage, London, outside London and England | |||
| £ | |||
| London | Outside London | England | |
| (1) Includes all new entrants to maintained schools in England, qualifying in England or Wales in the calendar year prior to the date shown, including SCITT and OU but excluding those qualifying through employment based routes. (2) Provisional Note: Figures are pounded to the nearest £10 Source: Database of Teacher Records and The General Teaching Council | |||
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what the average salary of state school teachers in Crosby constituency is. [236675]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not available at constituency level.
The average salary of full-time qualified teachers in local authority maintained schools in Sefton local authority was £32,250.
Teachers: Pensions
Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teachers will have received a payment from the Teachers' Pension Scheme in 2008 by the end of the year. [231125]
Jim Knight: Data on numbers of members, including pensioners, are available in the published Teachers’ Pension Scheme Resource accounts, which are available in the House of Commons Library (reference HC872).
Teachers: Recruitment
Mr. Ancram: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many new (a) female and (b) male teachers have entered the teaching profession in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools in 2008 to date. [228008]
Jim Knight: The information is not available in the format requested.
Figures for the number of teachers gaining qualified teacher status in calendar year 2005 via undergraduate and postgraduates routes by type of service, phase, age and gender in March 2006 are published in table C1 of the School Workforce Statistical First Release, January 2007 (Revised) at the following web link:-
March 2007 figures will be available at the end of November.
Teachers: Resignations
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many qualified teachers have left the maintained sector since 1997. [239869]
Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.
Teachers: Sick Leave
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many days off sick were taken by teachers on account of stress-related illnesses in each year for which figures are available. [226483]
Jim Knight: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Information the number of full-time and part-time teachers taking sickness absence, and the total number of days taken by length of absence is collected by the Department. The information available has been published in table 14 of the School Workforce Statistical First Release, January 2008 at the following web link:-
A summary for calendar years 2000 to 2007 has been published in table 13 of the School Workforce Statistical First Release, January 2008 at the same web link.
Teachers: Vacancies
Matthew Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many unfilled teaching jobs there have been at (a) primary school level and (b) secondary school level in (i) Cornwall and (ii) England in each year since 1979. [239012]
Jim Knight: The information is not available in the format requested.
The following table provides the number of full-time vacancies in local authority maintained nursery/primary and secondary schools in Cornwall local authority and England, January 1979 to 2008.
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