Question follow-through · 69043

Teachers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure schools in low-income communities can recruit and retain high-quality teachers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
18 Jul 2025
Target answer date
22 Jul 2025
Answer
28 Jul 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure schools in low-income communities can recruit and retain high-quality teachers.

  2. 22 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    Recruiting and retaining more qualified, expert teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break down barriers to opportunity and boost the life chances for every young person.For the 2024/25 and 2025/26 academic years, the department is offering...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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