Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will make it his policy to introduce statutory annual surveys for school staff in (a) primary, (b) secondary schools and (c) colleges.

Local authorities, local authority-maintained schools and academies must complete the school workforce census each autumn. This is a statutory data collection on all teaching and support staff in regular employment. More information is available here: www.gov.uk/guidance/school-workforce-census.

The College Staff Survey was published in 2018. The report is available here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/college-staff-survey-2018. This was a standalone, voluntary exercise.

The Department would consider the introduction of any additional future surveys very carefully, weighing up the potential benefits against the possible workload requirements for schools and colleges.