Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the number of (a) physics, (b) chemistry and (c) biology teachers in (i) Newcastle-under-Lyme constituency and (ii) Staffordshire.

As of the department’s latest census data covering the 2023/24 academic year, for the five out of seven secondary schools that returned curriculum data in Newcastle-under-Lyme, there are seven, five and eight teachers of physics, chemistry and biology respectively. For the 47 out of 71 secondary schools that returned curriculum data in the Staffordshire local area, there are 69, 92 and 107 teachers of physics, chemistry and biology respectively. For further key details regarding this data, please see the attached table.