To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers are working in schools in Chesham and Amersham; how many have qualified teacher status; what the status is of the remainder; and what their distribution is by (a) primary and (b) secondary sectors. [123922]

Teacher information is not available at constituency level. The most recent teacher data available for Buckinghamshire LEA is for January 2002, which show that the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) regular teachers in the maintained schools sector was 4,030, of which 3,860 had qualified teacher status (QTS). The FTE number of instructors and teachers without QTS on contracts of a month or more was 100 and the FTE number of teachers on the Graduate Teacher Programme, Registered Teacher Programmer or the Overseas Trained Teacher Programme was 70.There were 1,850 teachers in maintained nursery and primary schools, 1,990 in maintained secondary schools and 190 in maintained special schools and pupil referral units.