Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total cost of the hiring of agency teachers by state-funded schools was in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13 and (d) 2013-14.

Information on the income and expenditure of local authorities and schools (including academies) can be found in the Department for Education’s local authority and school finance data publications, available online at:

www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data