To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many substitute teachers were employed in primary schools in each of the education and library boards in Northern Ireland in each academic year from 1980–81 to 1987–88.

The information is not available in the form requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, the full-time teacher equivalent based on the number of days for which salary was paid to substitute teachers in primary schools in the financial year 1987–88 (the only year for which figures are available) is as follows: