Question follow-through · 40040
Teachers: Somerset
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve teacher (a) recruitment and (b) retention in Somerset.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 20 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 28 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve teacher (a) recruitment and (b) retention in Somerset.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
High quality teaching is the most important in-school factor to a child’s educational outcomes. Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is therefore critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost the ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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