Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate she has made of the number of secondary teaching posts that are (a) vacant and (b) being filled by a person who is not a specialist in that subject in each region in England.

Information on the number of secondary teaching posts that are vacant or temporarily filled is shown in Table 15 of the statistical release, School Workforce in England 2016, available at the following web link:

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

Information on the number of secondary school teachers that have relevant post A level qualifications for the subjects they teach is shown in Table 12.