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Science: Teachers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) physics, (b) chemistry and (c) biology teachers in (i) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (ii) Staffordshire.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
20 Jan 2025
Target answer date
22 Jan 2025
Answer
28 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 20 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) physics, (b) chemistry and (c) biology teachers in (i) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (ii) Staffordshire.

  2. 22 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 28 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    As of the department’s latest census data covering the 2023/24 academic year, for the five out of seven secondary schools that returned curriculum data in Newcastle-under-Lyme, there are seven, five and eight teachers of physics, chemistry and biology res...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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