Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on trends in the number of vacancies for teachers in primary schools in (a) Calderdale, (b) West Yorkshire and (c) nationally since 2005.

The following table provides the number of vacancies for full-time teaching posts in state-funded primary schools in (a) Calderdale local authority and (b) West Yorkshire and (c) England in November 2010 to 2014. Vacancy data is not available on a comparable basis prior to 2010. Data for November 2015 will be available at the end of June 2016.

Source: School Workforce Census

Published national figures for the full time series is available from Table 14 in the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2014 available at the following web link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2014