Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department collects and publishes figures on the number of vacant positions at (a) local authority and (b) regional level.

As part of the annual School Workforce Census, the Department collects the number of full time teaching posts that have been advertised and are still vacant on census day. This information is supplied by schools and is published for each school, local authority and region. This information is available from 2010 to 2016 and the latest information was published on 22 June 2017 in the underlying data file of the ‘School Workforce in England: November 2016’ statistical release, available at the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016