Question follow-through · 56975
Supply Teachers: Employment Agencies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of supply teachers employed through private agencies in (a) England and (b) the devolved Administrations.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 3 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data her Department holds on the proportion of supply teachers employed through private agencies in (a) England and (b) the devolved Administrations.
5 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jun 2025
Answer published
The school workforce census does not identify supply teachers in England. However, teachers who are not directly employed by the school or local authority and who are in school on census day (early November each year) with a contract or service agreement ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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