Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number and proportion of female teachers leaving the teaching profession in the last (a) one, (b) two and (c) five years.

Information on the number and demographics of teachers leaving state funded schools in England, plus the leaver type, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. Information for the last five years with gender breakdown is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/93502b56-cbce-4dc1-077b-08db29e96c41.