Question follow-through · 29520
Teachers: Music
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school music teachers left the teaching profession in the period between (a) 2010 and 2015, (b) 2015 and 2020 and (c) 2020 and 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 14 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school music teachers left the teaching profession in the period between (a) 2010 and 2015, (b) 2015 and 2020 and (c) 2020 and 2024.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Feb 2025
Answer published
Recruiting and retaining more teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost the life chances for every child, as the in-school factor that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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