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Mr. Callaghan
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what has been the average pupil:teacher ratio for each year since 1992; and if she will make a statement on the average pupil:teacher ratio forecast for the year 1996. [7011]
Mr. Robin Squire
The available information is shown in the following table. Information on the 1996 overall pupil:teacher ratio will be available in April 1996.
| Overall pupil:teacher ratio1 in schools2 in England 1992–95 position in January each year | ||
| Year | Including sixth form colleges | Excluding sixth form colleges |
| 1992 | 17.4 | — |
| 1993 | 17.7 | 17.8 |
| 1994 | — | 18.1 |
| 1995 | — | 18.3 |
| 1Including the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers and counting part-time pupils as 0.5 FTEs. | ||
| 2Maintained nursery,primary and secondary schools. | ||