Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people are currently enrolled in courses to become an early years teacher.
Experimental statistics on the number of new entrants to early years initial teacher training (ITT) in academic year 2016/17 were published as an annex to the ITT Census 2016/17, available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2016-to-2017
The department will publish equivalent figures for academic year 2017/18 in the ITT Census 2017/18 on 30 November.