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Mr. Callaghan
To ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the current pupil-teacher ratios (a) in England and (b) in the Greater Manchester area.
Mr. Boswell
The table shows the overall pupil-teacher ratios, at January 1992, for the maintained nursery, primary and secondary school sector in England and in the metropolitan districts of Greater Manchester (including self-governing state schools).
| LEA | Overal PTR |
| Bolton | 17·40 |
| Bury | 18·10 |
| Manchester | 17·40 |
| Oldham | 17·40 |
| Rochdale | 16·90 |
| Salford | 17·50 |
| Stockport | 18·30 |
| Tameside | 17·10 |
| Trafford | 18·50 |
| Wigan | 16·30 |
| Greater Manchester | 17·40 |
| England | 17·44 |