Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers in UK schools are EU nationals.
The Migration Advisory Committee’s report, ‘A full review of the Shortage Occupation List’, published in May 2019, estimated that around 4% of secondary school teachers and around 2% of primary and nursery school teachers were born in the European Economic Area (EEA) (excluding UK).
The Department publishes data on the nationality of initial teacher training (ITT) trainees, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2019-to-2020.
In 2019-20, there were 28,859 postgraduate new entrants to ITT whose nationality was known, which was 98% of all postgraduate new entrants. Of these, 5% (1,484) were EEA nationals (excluding UK).