Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people are employed in maintained nurseries in (a) Burnley, (b) Lancashire and (c) the North West.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent and head count number of workforce staff in service in local authority maintained nursery schools in Burnley parliamentary constituency, Lancashire local authority, North West region and England, November 2014. The figures are from the school workforce census and are the latest available.
| Burnley | Lancashire | North West | England |
Total regular FTE workforce[1] | 67 | 233 | 774 | 6,142 |
Total regular head count workforce1 | 82 | 295 | 992 | 8,327 |
[1] Excludes occasional teachers and third party support staff.