Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies on training teachers of the findings of the National Audit Office report, Training new teachers, published in February 2016.

We are considering the findings of the National Audit Office report on training new teachers. The Permanent Secretary and Sinead O’Sullivan, Director of Programme Delivery in the National College for Teaching and Leadership, will be appearing as witnesses before a Public Accounts Committee hearing on the report on Monday 7 March 2016. This will be an opportunity to discuss the content of the report.