Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places were distributed in the initial allocations for initial teacher training trainees to School Direct and HE providers in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14, (d) 2014-15 and (e) 2015-16; and what the target number of trainees estimated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership, the National College for School Leadership and the Teaching Agency was in each of those years.
The data for initial teacher training (ITT) allocations for School Direct and HE providers over the last 5 years is shown in the table below:
2011/12 | 2012/13 | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | |
HE providers | 28,669 | 28,841 | 26,790 | 23,095 | 22,224 |
School Direct | 0 | 772 | 9,586 | 15,254 | 17,609 |