Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 58967

Teachers: Recruitment

Tabled: 11 June 2025

Answered: 19 June 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether (a) history, (b) physical education, (c) Classics, (d) drama and (e) religious education are included in the set of subjects defined as key subjects for the purposes of the commitment to recruit 6,500 n

Answer

Catherine McKinnell

High quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child or young person’s outcomes in schools and colleges. This is why the government’s Plan for Change is committed to recruiting an additional 6,500 new expert teache...

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