Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the final number of trainee teachers recruited in each region was in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14.

The table attached shows the total number of trainee teachers in each region from 2010/11 to 2013/14.

This is taken from the initial teacher training (ITT) census, which is taken on the second Wednesday of October each academic year. Further information is published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014.