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Teachers: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of the recent changes to teacher training funding eligibility on recruitment to Modern Foreign Languages and Physics teacher training courses.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
14 May 2026
Target answer date
20 May 2026
Answer
12 Jun 2026 · 29 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 May 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment the Department has made of the potential impact of the recent changes to teacher training funding eligibility on recruitment to Modern Foreign Languages and Physics teacher training courses.

  2. 20 May 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 12 Jun 2026

    Answer published

    The department has now achieved over 70% of our target to recruit 6,500 additional expert teachers by the end of this Parliament. There are 4,654 additional expert teachers in secondary and special schools and colleges.Recruitment of physics trainee teach...

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