Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers have left the teaching profession in each of the last five years.

The Department publishes statistics showing the number and rate of qualified teachers who enter service and the number and rate of qualified teachers leaving service.

The latest available statistics, for 2011 to 2014, are in Table C1b of the additional tables in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2014’, which was published in July 2015:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014

The statistics show that the qualified teacher entry rate has been higher than the qualified teacher leavers rate throughout 2011 to 2014.