Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the number of teaching staff currently signed-off from work with a stress-related illness in (a) England, (b) the North East, and (c) Northumberland in the latest period for which figures are available.

The information requested is not held centrally.

The overall number of teachers taking any sickness absence up to the 2017/18 academic year has been published in the school workforce in England statistics, which are available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2018.

National figures are provided in table 16 of the main tables and subnational figures in the regional, local authority and school tables. The information is not broken down by the type of illness.