Louise Haigh – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Louise Haigh on 2015-10-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the number of secondary school teachers accessing continuing professional development in design and technology in (a) 2010, (b) 2011, (c) 2012, (d) 2013, (e) 2014 and (f) 2015 to date.

Nick Gibb

The government does not collect data on the number of teachers accessing professional development. Decisions relating to teachers’ professional development rest with schools, individual teachers and head teachers, who are in the best position to judge their own requirements.