Question follow-through · 33328
Supply Teachers: Conditions of Employment and Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential benefits of creating an agency for supply teachers to standardise pay and conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 22 Mar 2025 · 26 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential benefits of creating an agency for supply teachers to standardise pay and conditions.
26 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Mar 2025
Answer published
Supply teachers perform a valuable role and the department is grateful for their important contribution to schools across the country.Schools and local authorities are currently responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and are best placed ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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