Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of those in leadership positions in state-funded schools at the latest date for which such figures are available were identified as (a) white British and (b) any other ethnic group.

In November 2013 there were 57,000 leadership teachers working in state-funded schools that were White-British (92% of all leadership teachers where their ethnicity was known) and a further 5,000 (8%) leadership teachers from all other ethnic groups. Ethnicity data is known for 97% of all leadership teachers.

The information requested is also published in table 5 in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2013’ and is published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-workforce-in-england-november-2013