Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers left the profession within three years of qualification in each region of England in each of the last three years for which figures are available.

Information on teachers leaving all state funded schools in England, within three years of qualifying, is available in Table 8 of the publication, School Workforce in England, 2016. This is available here:

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

We know that there are differences on teacher retention at a sub-national level and the Department has been doing more work to understand this. Information at regional level comparable to the national figures referenced above is not available. Information is available on the number of qualified teachers leaving the profession by region. The latest information is for the years 2010 to 2015. It is published as part of the statistical release, Local analysis of Teacher Workforce: 2010 to 2015. Tables 2.2a and 2.2b show the wastage rates, by region, in both state funded primary and secondary schools. They show that teacher wastage was highest in Inner London and lowest in the North East. This publication can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015.