Question follow-through · 34561
Teachers: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department are taking to increase +-teacher retention rates in rural areas.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 29 Mar 2025 · 30 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
27 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department are taking to increase +-teacher retention rates in rural areas.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Mar 2025
Answer published
High quality teaching is the in-school factor that makes the biggest difference to a child’s education which is why sufficient high-quality teachers is key to delivering the government’s agenda to break down the barriers to opportunity. Measures will incl...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Teachers: Disciplinary Proceedings
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Schools: Admissions
7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to ensure that teachers are given priority to enrol their children at schools they teach at.
Pre-school Education: Coronavirus
7 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the impact of Covid 19 on the reception class cohort of September 2025; and whether additional (a) preparation and (b) provision has been made for that cohort.
PE and Sport Premium: Gloucestershire
19 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the allocation of funding for (a) PE and (b) Sports Premium in Gloucestershire.
Educational Institutions: Hate Crime
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent steps she has taken to support (a) schools and (b) other institutions that are being targeted by social media hate campaigns.
Secondary Education: Admissions
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of the guidance on the secondary school admissions process to ensure parents are better equipped to support their children’s preparation.
Secondary Education: Gloucestershire
12 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions her Department has had with the local authority on the number of secondary school placements in Gloucestershire.
Pre-school Education: Primary Education
17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to improve the transition from play-based to formal learning.
Curriculum: Vocational Guidance
17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of the education curriculum to prepare young people for the future workplace.
Social Services: Vocational Guidance
17 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that young people consider social care as a potential future career.
Young Carers
9 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department has taken (a) with schools and local authorities to strengthen the measures used to identify young carers and (b) to ensure that schools are audited against those measures.
Parents: Finance
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to financially support parents of children who attend nursery.