Question follow-through · 15837
Teachers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on recruiting 6,500 teachers.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 2 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what progress her Department has made on recruiting 6,500 teachers.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government has a central mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost life chances for every child. The within-school and college factor that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s education is high-quality teaching, but this gove...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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