To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information is available regarding the number and proportion, for each subject, of newly trained secondary teachers (a) taking up a first appointment in the maintained sector; and (b) working in the maintained sector after the satisfactory completion of probation; and if he will make a statement.

[holding answer 13 June 1988]: The numbers and percentages of newly trained secondary teachers who in 1986 both completed training and took up a teaching appointment in a maintained secondary school are shown in the table. Others enter teaching at a later date, and a small number become teachers in the primary, special or further education sectors. For those who trained in university departments of education, data are readily available only for the three subjects shown.The Department has no direct information on the numbers of teachers remaining in service after satisfactory completion of probation. However 10 per cent. of secondary teachers in service two terms after qualifying were no longer in service a year later.