asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many people were employed by the Inner London Education Authority in 1969 and 1979 as (a) teachers and (b) administration staff.

The numbers of teachers, based on regular returns from the Inner London Education Authority, are:

October 1969	27,100
September 1979	30,600

These include full-time and the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers—except for part-time teachers in further education, for which information is not available to my Department.The two figures given are not fully comparable because of changes in the form of the regular return and other reasons.Data on administration staff are not identified in the annual returns made by local authorities to central Departments; I therefore suggest that the hon. Member seeks this information from the Inner London Education Authority.