Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when it was decided to reduce the bursary for post-graduate primary teacher training; and what steps she has taken to communicate that decision to potential applicants for such training.

Bursary incentives are reviewed every year in response to recruitment performance and the need for new teachers in the coming years.

This year the new bursary rates were announced on 1^st October 2015, and publicised subsequently through the “Get into Teaching” website and advertised on social media.