Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of students who have undergone teacher training have still been teaching by the start of the second year of their teaching career in each of the last three years.

Statistics on the number of final year postgraduate trainee teachers who were awarded qualified teacher status, and the number and proportion of those who reported being in a teaching post within 6 months of qualifying, is available in Table 5 of the ‘initial teacher training performance profiles: 2015 to 2016’ statistical first release, available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2015-to-2016.

The latest available data relates to academic year 2015/16 and Table 5b of the publication includes time-series data back to academic year 2006/07.

The retention rates for teachers who qualified in each year are publically available in Table 8 of the ‘School Workforce in England: November 2016’ statistical release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016.