asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the pupil-teacher ratios for each local education authority for the most recent year for which figures are available, and for 1983 and 1979.
The pupil-teacher ratios in each local education authority in England in 1979, 1983 and 1986 were as follows:
| Pupil-teacher ratios1 | |||
| January each year | 1979 | 1983 | 1986 |
| Barking | 17·6 | 17·5 | 17·1 |
| Barnet | 17·4 | 16·2 | 15·7 |
| Bexley | 19·2 | 18·7 | 18·4 |
| Brent | 15·1 | 14·6 | 13·8 |
| Bromley | 19·2 | 18·0 | 18·1 |
| Croydon | 18·4 | 17·2 | 17·1 |
| Ealing | 17·4 | 16·4 | 16·2 |
| Enfield | 19·5 | 17·6 | 17·4 |
| Haringey | 17·3 | 15·2 | 13·5 |
| Harrow | 18·0 | 16·7 | 16·6 |
| Havering | 19·2 | 17·9 | 17·3 |
| Hillingdon | 18·8 | 18·0 | 18·6 |
| Hounslow | 17·7 | 16·4 | 16·3 |
| Kingston-upon-Thames | 17·9 | 18·1 | 16·8 |
| Merton | 18·7 | 17·9 | 17·3 |
| January each year | 1979 | 1983 | 1986 |
| Newham | 17·3 | 16·1 | 15·1 |
| Redbridge | 19·1 | 18·0 | 17·9 |
| Richmond-upon-Thames | 18·6 | 17·5 | 17·1 |
| Sutton | 19·0 | 19·2 | 19·0 |
| Waltham Forest | 16·7 | 15·6 | 15·0 |
| Inner London | 15·3 | 13·8 | 13·5 |
| Birmingham | 19·1 | 19·3 | 17·7 |
| Coventry | 18·4 | 18·0 | 16·6 |
| Dudley | 21·0 | 18·6 | 17·6 |
| Sandwell | 18·9 | 17·4 | 16·8 |
| Solihull | 19·2 | 19·2 | 18·2 |
| Walsall | 18·4 | 16·9 | 16·4 |
| Wolverhampton | 17·5 | 16·1 | 15·9 |
| Knowsley | 18·6 | 17·0 | 16·0 |
| Liverpool | 17·7 | 17·8 | 16·4 |
| St. Helens | 19·4 | 18·5 | 17·2 |
| Sefton | 19·6 | 18·6 | 18·3 |
| Wirral | 19·9 | 18·6 | 18·0 |
| Bolton | 20·0 | 18·9 | 18·1 |
| Bury | 19·4 | 17·9 | 17·0 |
| Manchester | 16·9 | 17·2 | 15·8 |
| Oldham | 20·7 | 19·0 | 17·8 |
| Rochdale | 17·9 | 16·5 | 16·4 |
| Salford | 18·3 | 17·3 | 16·8 |
| Stockport | 21·1 | 18·8 | 18·1 |
| Tameside | 19·5 | 18·5 | 17·8 |
| Trafford | 18·4 | 18·3 | 18·6 |
| Wigan | 18·3 | 17·3 | 16·3 |
| Barnsley | 19·1 | 17·9 | 17·2 |
| Doncaster | 18·6 | 17·9 | 17·5 |
| Rotherham | 20·0 | 19·0 | 17·7 |
| Sheffield | 18·7 | 17·6 | 16·6 |
| Bradford | 17·9 | 17·7 | 16·9 |
| Calderdale | 19·7 | 17·9 | 17·0 |
| Kirklees | 19·9 | 18·5 | 18·0 |
| Leeds | 19·7 | 18·2 | 16·9 |
| Wakefield | 19·6 | 19·2 | 18·6 |
| Gateshead | 18·2 | 17·6 | 17·0 |
| Newcastle-upon-Tyne | 15·9 | 15·4 | 15·6 |
| North Tyneside | 17·5 | 16·3 | 14·7 |
| South Tyneside | 17·5 | 16·4 | 15·8 |
| Sunderland | 19·5 | 18·5 | 17·8 |
| Isles of Scilly | 13·3 | 12·8 | 11·1 |
| Avon | 18·9 | 18·8 | 18·5 |
| Bedfordshire | 18·2 | 18·8 | 17·8 |
| Berkshire | 19·6 | 18·6 | 17·8 |
| Buckinghamshire | 20·1 | 19·5 | 19·2 |
| Cambridgeshire | 19·1 | 19·6 | 19·1 |
| Cheshire | 19·4 | 18·6 | 18·3 |
| Cleveland | 19·7 | 18·0 | 18·0 |
| Cornwall | 19·4 | 19·0 | 18·1 |
| Cumbria | 19·1 | 17·9 | 17·2 |
| Derbyshire | 20·2 | 19·0 | 17·7 |
| Devon | 20·1 | 19·0 | 18·4 |
| Dorset | 19·3 | 18·6 | 18·0 |
| Durham | 18·7 | 18·6 | 18·6 |
| East Sussex | 19·1 | 18·7 | 18·5 |
| Essex | 19·7 | 19·7 | 19·3 |
| Gloucestershire | 19·5 | 19·3 | 18·6 |
| Hampshire | 20·2 | 19·6 | 19·0 |
| Hereford and Worcester | 19·7 | 19·4 | 18·3 |
| Hertfordshire | 18·4 | 17·9 | 17·9 |
| Humberside | 18·5 | 17·6 | 17·4 |
| Isle of Wight | 19·4 | 18·4 | 18·6 |
| Kent | 20·0 | 19·4 | 19·0 |
| Lancashire | 19·6 | 18·8 | 18·5 |
| Leicestershire | 18·8 | 18·5 | 17·6 |
| Table 1 New JTS-Entrants per week 13 February to 6 March | ||||||||
| Area | Week ending Entrants | 13 February In-training | Week ending Entrants | 20 February In-training | Week ending Entrants | 27 February In-training | Week ending Entrants | 6 March In-training |
| Dundee | 12 | 141 | 8 | 147 | 41 | 181 | 28 | 203 |
| Billingham | 11 | 89 | 19 | 103 | 7 | 109 | 0 | 105 |
| Huddersfield | 24 | 122 | 19 | 136 | 0 | 128 | 14 | 135 |
January each year
| 1979
| 1983
| 1986
|
| Lincolnshire | 19·7 | 19·5 | 18·7 |
| Norfolk | 19·7 | 19·1 | 18·3 |
| North Yorkshire | 19·0 | 18·1 | 18·0 |
| Northamptonshire | 19·4 | 18·2 | 17·2 |
| Northumberland | 18·3 | 18·6 | 18·0 |
| Nottinghamshire | 20·1 | 18·1 | 17·4 |
| Oxfordshire | 19·6 | 18·7 | 17·2 |
| Shropshire | 19·7 | 18·1 | 17·4 |
| Somerset | 20·7 | 20·6 | 19·0 |
| Staffordshire | 19·2 | 18·0 | 18·0 |
| Suffolk | 19·7 | 18·5 | 18·3 |
| Surrey | 18·8 | 18·7 | 18·1 |
| Warwickshire | 19·7 | 19·2 | 18·6 |
| West Sussex | 20·2 | 19·1 | 18·9 |
| Wiltshire | 19·7 | 19·3 | 19·0 |
1 Pupil-teacher ratios over all maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools relate the total number of full time equivalent pupils to the total number of full time equivalent qualified teachers, student teachers and instructors being paid by LEAs and employed for service in maintained schools. | |||
asked the secretary of state for Education and Science if he will publish the pupil-teacher ratio for England in each year since 1979.
:The overall pupil-teacher ratios in England in each year since 1979 was as follows:
| January each Year | Pupil/teachers ratio 1 |
| 1979 | 18·9 |
| 1980 | 18·7 |
| 1981 | 18·6 |
| 1982 | 18·5 |
| 1983 | 18·1 |
| 1984 | 17·9 |
| 1985 | 17·8 |
| 1986 | 17·6 |
| 1 Pupil-teacher ratios over all maintained nursery primary and secondary schools relate the total number of full time equivalent pupils to the total number of full time equivalent qualified teachers, student teachers and instructors being paid by LEAs and employed for service in maintained schools. | |