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Teachers: Training

Commons · Question 78626 · Tabled 10 Oct 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 4 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Munira Wilson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students with qualified teacher status (a) have and (b) have not secured an early career teaching post after completing training in the last 12 months.

Answer

Answered by Georgia Gould, 4 Nov 2025

​​In the 2023/24 academic year, 25,845 trainees achieved qualified teacher status. The department provisionally estimates that 18,910 of these were teaching in a state-funded school in England within 16 months of the end of the 2023/24 academic year and 6...