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Question reference: S6W-42473

Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: 9 December 2025
Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 January 2026

Question

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide what information it has on the number of English teachers there are in each local authority area, broken down by (a) gender and (b) nationally.

Answer

The full-time equivalent (FTE) secondary school teachers with English as their main subject or other subject in 2024, by sex and local authority, is provided in the following table.

	Female	Male	All teachers
Aberdeen City	73	21	94
Aberdeenshire	89	39	128
Angus	44	21	65
Argyll and Bute	36	8	44
City of Edinburgh	145	64	209
Clackmannanshire	17	5	22
Dumfries and Galloway	68	12	80
Dundee City	52	18	70
East Ayrshire	36	17	53
East Dunbartonshire	56	21	77
East Lothian	42	14	56
East Renfrewshire	54	27	81
Falkirk	59	21	80
Fife	128	46	174
Glasgow City	212	78	291
Highland	90	40	130
Inverclyde	23	12	35
Midlothian	45	14	58
Moray	37	6	44
Na h-Eileanan Siar	11	5	16
North Ayrshire	51	19	70
North Lanarkshire	158	36	194
Orkney Islands	c	c	16
Perth and Kinross	47	18	65
Renfrewshire	78	20	98
Scottish Borders	36	18	54
Shetland Islands	c	c	16
South Ayrshire	33	14	47
South Lanarkshire	125	44	169
Stirling	49	11	60
West Dunbartonshire	37	9	46
West Lothian	74	29	103
All local authorities	2,034	710	2,743
Grant aided	c	c	6
Scotland	2,038	712	2,750

c = value suppressed to protect against the risk of disclosure of personal information.

These FTE statistics have been rounded to the nearest whole number so the sum of the rows shown may not match the total shown.

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