Question follow-through · 118638
Secondary Education: Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure adequate numbers of qualified physics teachers in secondary schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 6 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 10 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 16 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure adequate numbers of qualified physics teachers in secondary schools.
10 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Mar 2026
Answer published
The government’s Plan for Change is committed to recruiting an additional 6,500 new expert teachers across secondary and special schools and our colleges over the course of this Parliament.In 2023/24, just 17% of the postgraduate initial teacher training ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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