Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of unfilled trainee teacher places in each of the last five years.

The information requested can be found in Table 1b of the Main tables, Initial teacher training: trainee number census - 2015 to 2016, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2015-to-2016