Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 108851

Teachers: recruitment

Tabled: 27 January 2026
Answered: 4 February 2026

Question

Shivani Raja

ConservativeLeicester East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to help increase the number of teachers in England.

Answer

Georgia Gould
The latest school workforce census reported that the workforce has grown by 2,346 FTE between 2023/24 and 2024/25 in secondary and special schools. This year has one of the lowest leaver rates since 2010, with 1,700 fewer teachers leaving the state-funded...

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