To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many teachers are teaching subjects they have no qualifications to teach; and what progress has been made and measures taken to reduce the numbers.

The latest information is provided by the 1992 secondary school staffing survey. The table shows the percentage of full-time secondary teachers in England who gave some tuition in a subject in which they held no post-A level qualification, and the percentage of tuition this represented. About half of this tuition was by teachers with five or more years' experience of teaching the subject.

Subject	Percentage of teachers without a qualification	Tuition by these teachers as a percentage of all tuition in subject
Mathematics	22	10
Biology	14	11
Chemistry	5	3
Physics	6	4
General Science	16	9
CDT	50	34
English	27	14
French	18	9
German	24	13
Other Languages	34	19
History	28	11
Geography	29	10
Music	19	5
Art	24	7

Subject	Percentage of teachers without a qualification	Tuition by these teachers as a percentage of all tuition in subject
Physical Education	32	9
Religious Education	54	25

Compared with the results of the 1988 secondary school staffing survey, these figures show a slight improvement.The Department has funded a range of measures which have enhanced the skills of existing teachers and improved the supply of secondary subject specialists. These include £170 million currently being spent on in-service training, and specific support for upgrading non-specialist teachers of physics, chemistry and French. There has been a 44 per cent. increase in recruitment to secondary teacher training since 1990.