Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teaching posts are vacant in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) the North-West and (ii) Warrington.

In November 2016 there were 35 vacancies for full time primary teachers in the North West region and one in the Warrington Local Authority area. The figures for secondary were 40 in the North West region. None of these were in the Warrington Local Authority area.

This information is available from 2010 to 2016 and is for state funded schools. The latest figures were published on 22 June 2017 in the ‘School Workforce in England: November 2016’ statistical release, available at the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016