Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many early years teachers have trained through each of the four teacher training routes referred to in paragraph 24 of the Early Years Workforce Strategy 2017 since September 2013.

The Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Census publishes experimental statistics on the number of new entrants to Early Years ITT, including a breakdown by route. Data going back to academic year 2016/17 are available in the latest ITT Census publication, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2017-to-2018.

The department is unable to provide any data collected prior to the experimental statistics released with the ITT Census on 24 November 2016.