Question follow-through · 901340
Teachers
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time equivalent schoolteachers there were in (a) 2025 and (b) 2024.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 8 Sept 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 15 Sept 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Sept 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many full-time equivalent schoolteachers there were in (a) 2025 and (b) 2024.
14 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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15 Sept 2026
Answer published
Recruiting and retaining expert teachers is critical to the government’s mission to break down the barriers to opportunity for every child, as high-quality teaching is the in-school factor that has the biggest positive impact on a child’s outcomes.In Nove...
Official data retrieved 1 Oct 2026.
Later records
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