Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 36784

Teachers: Recruitment

Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 7 April 2025

Question

Munira Wilson

Liberal DemocratTwickenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department is measuring its progress on recruiting 6,500 new teachers; and whether this measurement will account for teachers that leave the profession over the remainder of the Parliament.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The factor in schools and colleges that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcomes is high-quality teaching. Ensuring a high-quality teaching workforce is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to ...

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