Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 53834

Teachers: Recruitment

Tabled: 21 May 2025
Answered: 6 June 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the School workforce in England figures, published in June 2024 will be the baseline against which she will measure progress towards recruiting 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
High quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child and young person’s outcome in schools and colleges. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break dow...

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