To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give his most recent assessment of teacher vacancies in Wales in total and by education authority for (a) primary schools, (b) secondary schools and (c) all local authority schools, giving for each the number of posts vacant and the proportion of posts vacant.
The Department has undertaken two surveys of teacher vacancies this year. The results of the first, undertaken in January, reported 346 vacancies. Details are set out in the following table:
| LEA | Primary | Vacancies Secondary | Total |
| Clwyd | 31 | 11 | 42 |
| Dyfed | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| Gwent | 33 | 46 | 79 |
LEA
| Vacancies
| ||
Primary
| Secondary
| Total
| |
| Gwynedd | 26 | 22 | 48 |
| Mid Glamorgan | 81 | 38 | 119 |
| Powys | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Glamorgan | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| West Glamorgan | — | 11 | 11 |
| Wales | 187 | 159 | 346 |
The second survey was undertaken at the start of the school year in September. Local education authorities reported the following vacancies in their areas:
LEA
| Vacancies
| ||
Primary
| Secondary
| Total
| |
| Clwyd | 2 | — | 2 |
| Dyfed | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Gwent | — | — | — |
| Gwynedd | — | — | — |
| Mid Glamorgan | 10 | 5 | 15 |
| Powys | — | — | — |
| South Glamorgan | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| West Glamorgan | 19 | 6 | 25 |
| Wales | 37 | 17 | 54 |
The most recent information on the number of teachers employed by the local education authorities relates to January 1990 when 13,074 teachers were employed in primary schools and 13,298 in secondary schools.