Jess Phillips – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of supply teachers working in schools.

Nick Gibb

The data requested is not available.

Supply teachers play a valuable role in helping schools to address their teacher deployment needs. It is for individual head teachers to determine when it is appropriate to use a supply teacher.