Question follow-through · 85578
Supply Teachers: Employment Agencies
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of commercial agencies in the supply teaching sector; and whether she plans to provide funding for non-commercial operators in that sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of commercial agencies in the supply teaching sector; and whether she plans to provide funding for non-commercial operators in that sector.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and are best placed to make decisions on this.The supply market in England is large and diverse. It includes supply pools, direct recruitment and commercial agencie...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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