(2) how many teachers of foreign languages were employed in maintained secondary schools in England in each of the last 10 years.
The information requested is not available.
The number of mathematics teachers in maintained primary schools is not collected centrally; the number of teachers of mathematics and foreign languages in maintained secondary schools in England is collected as part of the Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Survey. This is an occasional survey that does not provide a full-time series.
The following table gives data from the 2002 and 2007 surveys, the most recent years available:
Full-time1 Full-time equivalent1 2002 2007 2002 2007 Mathematics 28,200 28,300 n/a 30,800 Foreign Languages2 French 16,000 13,000 n/a 14,900 German 6,900 5,800 n/a 6,600 Spanish 3,600 4,800 n/a 5,200 Other modem languages 1,400 1,800 n/a 2,100 1 Full-time teacher numbers are provided for 2002 and 2007; full-time equivalent teacher numbers (which includes part-time teachers) were only collected in 2007. 2 Foreign language teachers may include some double counting as teachers are counted once under each subject they teach—a teacher teaching both French and German, for example, will be counted once under each subject in the table. Source: Secondary School Curriculum and Staffing Survey, 2002 and 2007