Question follow-through · 23735
Teachers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the target for an additional 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects this Parliament will be met.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure the target for an additional 6,500 new expert teachers in key subjects this Parliament will be met.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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22 Jan 2025
Answer published
High quality teaching is the in-school factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s outcomes and is thus essential to delivering the government’s mission to break down the barriers to opportunity for every child.There are now 468,693 full-time ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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