Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the Schools Direct recruitment target is for initial teacher training in all years for which figures are available.

There is no target for the number of trainee teachers to be recruited to the School Direct scheme. The Department for Education aims to recruit in line with the number of trainees needed across all routes, as estimated by our Teacher Supply Model.

The Teacher Supply Model figures for the academic year 2015/16 have been published as part of management information about initial teacher training allocations. This is published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2015-to-2016

Allocations for 2014/15 and 2013/14 are published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training