Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the number of foreign teachers that have been recruited to teach in schools in England in the last 12 months; and for what subjects they have been recruited.

Information on the nationality or country of origin of staff is not collected centrally.

Information on the school workforce in England, including teacher characteristics and subjects taught in secondary schools, is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.