asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will publish in the Official Reporta list of local education authorities which have brought early retirement schemes for teachers into effect showing the numbers who have so far made use of the scheme.
Following are the local education authorities which, to the knowledge of my Department, have arranged or are in the process of arranging premature retirements of teachers resulting in payment of accrued superannuation benefits under the terms of the Teachers Superannuation (Amendment) Regulations 1978.Inner London Education AuthorityLondon Boroughs:BarnetCroydonEalingHaringeyHarrowHaveringHillingdonHounslowKingston upon ThamesRedbridgeRichmond-upon-ThamesAvonBedfordshireBerkshireBirminghamBoltonBradfordBuckinghamshire
Cheshire
Cleveland
Coventry
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Devon
Dorset
Dudley
Durham
East Sussex
Essex
Gloucestershire
Hampshire
Hereford and Worcestershire
Hertfordshire
Humberside
Kent
Lancashire
Leeds
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
North Tyneside
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
Northumberland
Nottinghamshire
Oxfordshire
Rochdale
Rotherham
Salop
Sefton
Sheffield
Somerset
South Tyneside
Staffordshire
Trafford
West Sussex
Wirral
Wolverhampton
Clwyd
Dyfed
Gwent
Gwynedd
Mid-Glamorgan
West Glamorgan
Early retirements of teachers recorded by the Department's pensions branch are as follows:
| 1 April 1977 to 31 March 1978 | … | 3 |
| 1 April 1978 to 31 March 1979 | … | 842 |
| 1 April 1979 to 20 October 1979 | … | 2,402 |
| Total | … | 3,247 |
The Department has no information on the extent to which the employing authorities have enhanced, from their own funds, the accrued superannuation benefit of individual teachers.