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 | | Q46 Jeff Ennis: If I could, prior to coming on to that, ask a question supplementary to the point we have just been pursuing about the billion pounds that is consumed in school budgets at the present time. |
 | | Q48 Jeff Ennis: Focusing on last year's problem, first of all, in terms of the problems it created for personnel issues with schools, we have been given a variety of figures just exactly how many teachers were lost within the system. |
 | | I think we all recognise there are particular challenges, for example, in maths and science teachers, but broadly, and it is an average in that sense, numbers are falling, vacancy rates are falling, across the piece and most sharply in the areas where the demand is greatest. |
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