Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what her Department's combined target for postgraduate and undergraduate trainees was for initial teacher training (a) including and (b) excluding Teach First to teach (i) English, (ii) mathematics, (iii) all science subjects, (iv) biology, (v) chemistry, (vi) physics, (vii) computing, (viii) classics, (ix) design and technology, (x) drama, (xi) modern and ancient languages, (xii) geography, (xiii) history, (xiv) art and design, (xv) music, (xvi) physical education, (xvii) religious education, (xviii) business studies, (xix) other subjects, (xx) all secondary subjects and (xxi) all primary subjects in each year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.

Information on subject level targets for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) can be found in Table 1b of the ITT Census 2015/16:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2015-to-2016

There are no targets for the various routes, including the Teach First programme, into ITT.

Prior to 2015/16 there was an aggregated undergraduate and postgraduate target for new entrants to ITT. Recruitment to Teach First was not included in performance against these targets. The 2015/16 target was for postgraduate new entrants only, and for the first time includes recruitment to Teach First.