Current status: Answered by Michael Russell on 15 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist PE teachers there have been in secondary schools in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Information on the number of teachers by local authority in secondary schools whose main subject is PE is only available from 2003. The information can be found in the statistical bulletins Teachers in Scotland for the years from 2003 onwards. Links to the information are set as follows:
2003: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2004/07/19729/40854
2004: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/04/25165316/54274.
2005: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/03/28083648/81.
2006: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/03/27085753/85.
2007: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/03/18093809/95.
2008: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/04/29102949/90.
2009: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/02/09090009/89.