Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the ability of (a) comprehensive schools, (b) academies and (c) free schools to recruit teachers.

The Secretary of State for Education has received representations on teacher recruitment from individual schools, a head teacher group, professional subject associations and an association of universities providing teacher training. Teacher recruitment has also been discussed at the Department for Education’s programme of talks with the teaching unions.