Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

What steps her Department is taking to encourage teachers to remain in that profession.

Tabled: 16 June 2026Answered: 22 June 2026

Asked by

Ian Lavery

LabourBlyth and Ashington

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Andrew Western)

My hon. Friend is entirely right to raise this issue. He will be pleased to know that this Government are looking to utilise new powers to obtain a liability order without recourse to the courts, reducing the time taken to secure such an order from 22 weeks to around six.