Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2026 to Question 22510 on Teachers: Religious Education, what comparative estimate her Department has made of the number of accepted applicants to postgraduate Religious Education initial teacher training in the (a) 2026/27 and (b) 2025/26 recruitment cycle; and what analysis she has undertaken of the factors contributing to any change.

I refer the hon. Member for Leicester East to the answer of 13 October 2026 to Question 30137.