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Teachers: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of progress in ineasing levels of teacher recruitment.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
10 Oct 2025
Target answer date
14 Oct 2025
Answer
4 Nov 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of progress in ineasing levels of teacher recruitment.

  2. 14 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    ​​As part of the Plan for Change, the government has a commitment to recruit an additional 6,500 expert teachers across secondary and special schools and further education colleges by the end of this Parliament to ensure a high quality teacher in every cl...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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