Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers who qualified in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15, (c) 2015-16, and (d) 2016-17 have left the profession.

Full information on retention rates for newly qualified teachers who began their employment in each year since 1997 is 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.

Information for 2016 is not yet available but will be published later this year.