Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department used the teacher supply model to model the number of teachers needed in each region in each of the last five years.

The Department uses the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) to estimate national postgraduate Initial Teacher Training place requirements for primary and each secondary subject to meet future demand. As a national model the TSM is not used to assess teachers needed in each region. The most recently published model is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/tsm-and-initial-teacher-training-allocations-2018-to-2019.

Training places are allocated on the basis of the published allocations methodology.

The 2018/19 methodology is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/644642/FINAL_The_allocation_of_initial_teacher_training_places_methodology_for_.._.pdf.

In light of requests for places, increased demand for teachers as determined by the TSM, and recent recruitment patterns, most postgraduate teacher training subjects now have unrestricted recruitment.

To support Initial Teacher Training providers, the Department has published a range of analysis on local teacher supply issues in the first two teachers analysis compendiums:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/teachers-analysis-compendium-2017.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/teachers-analysis-compendium-2.