Question follow-through · 36784
Teachers: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department is measuring its progress on recruiting 6,500 new teachers; and whether this measurement will account for teachers that leave the profession over the remainder of the Parliament.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how her Department is measuring its progress on recruiting 6,500 new teachers; and whether this measurement will account for teachers that leave the profession over the remainder of the Parliament.
12 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
The factor in schools and colleges that makes the biggest difference to a young person’s educational outcomes is high-quality teaching. Ensuring a high-quality teaching workforce is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
Strong links require the same MP, department and exact heading. Other same-department questions are shown as unreviewed candidates, not as confirmed follow-ups. No debate link is asserted unless a stable source relationship exists.
Childcare
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many two year olds were recorded as eligible for 15 hours of free childcare in the academic year 2024-25; and how many were unable to take up those hours due to shortage of nursery places.
Childcare
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) three and (b) four year olds were recorded as eligible for the additional 15 hours of free childcare in the academic year 2024-25; and how many were unable to take up those hours due to shortage of
Educational Institutions: Closures
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary state-funded schools, (b) secondary state-funded schools, (c) sixth-form colleges, (d) 16-18 state-funded vocational colleges and (e) state-funded nursery schools closed in the last 12 mont
School Rebuilding Programme
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were scheduled to be and (ii) were (A) complete and (B) in progress by 1
School Rebuilding Programme: Concrete
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges identified as containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete and listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were
School Rebuilding Programme: Asbestos
11 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) nurseries, (b) primary schools, (c) secondary schools and (d) 16-18 colleges identified as containing asbestos and listed on the Schools Rebuilding Programme (i) were scheduled to be and (ii) were
Relationships and Sex Education
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to publish updated Relationships and Sex Education guidance.
Relationships and Sex Education
24 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of including misogyny and violence against women and girls in Relationships and Sex Education guidance.
Teachers: Workplace Pensions
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 27 November 2024 to Question 15145 on Teachers: Workplace Pensions, what recent progress she has made on reducing the backlog of people waiting for cash equivalent transfer value detai
Schools: Concrete
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 16368 on Schools: Buildings, how many and what proportion of the schools with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete had it permanently removed by 3 April 2
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund
3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided through the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund in each years since 2015; and how many individual children have accessed support through the Fund in each
Department of Education: Written Questions
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when she plans to Answer Question 43980 on Schools: Concrete, tabled on 3 April 2025.