Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teacher vacancies there were in schools in (a) Halton, (b) Merseyside and (c) Cheshire on 31 March 2016.

The following table provides the number of full-time teacher vacancies in state funded schools in (a) Halton, (b) Merseyside, and (c) Cheshire in November 2014, the latest information available[1]. November 2015 data will be available at the end of June.

Source: School Workforce Census

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014

[2] Includes Halton, Warrington, Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester.