Stephen Timms – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stephen Timms on 2016-03-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2016 to Question 28492, what the turnover rate of teachers was in each year since 2010.

Nick Gibb

The Department publishes statistics showing the number and rate of teachers who enter service and the number and rate of teachers leaving service. The latest available statistics, for 2011 to 2014, are in Table C1b of the additional tables in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2014’, which was published in July 2015, attached and available on GOV.UK at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014

The statistics show that the teacher entry rate has been higher than the teacher leavers rate throughout 2011 to 2014.

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