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Teachers: Recruitment

Commons · Question 36784 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 7 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Munira Wilson

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

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 7 Apr 2025

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 ...