Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many training places were available for nursery teachers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available; and how many applications were made in each such year for those training places.

Experimental statistics on new entrants to early years initial teacher training can be found here:https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2016-to-2017.

Previous years’ data were collected under different systems and are not comparable over time. We intend to publish experimental statistics on the number of new entrants to Early Years initial teacher training (ITT) in academic year 2017/18 as an annex to the ITT Census Statistical First Release in November 2017.

We do not hold published data on applications, and to date we have not published data on allocations.

Early years ITT allocations data for 2018/19 will be published for the first time as part of the 2018/19 TSM and ITT allocations publication on 26 October.