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Mr. Don Foster
To ask the Secretary of State for deputy head teacher posts are currently vacant in local education authority maintained (a) secondary and (b) primary schools. [16090]
Mr. Byers
The number of head teacher and deputy head teacher vacancies, at January 1997, in local education authority maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in England is shown in the following table. Vacancies in grant maintained schools are not included.
| Grade of post vacant1 | Nursery/primary | Secondary |
| Head teacher | 122 | 29 |
| Deputy head | 202 | 31 |
| 1 Only those posts which were advertised at 16 January 1997 as full-time permanent posts or posts of at least one term's duration are counted as vacancies. | ||