Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many newly qualified teachers have remained in the teaching profession in state schools in (a) Wansbeck constituency and (b) England after (i) one year, (ii) two years, (iii) three years, (iv) four years and (v) five years of qualification in each of the last five years.

The following table provides the full and part time[1] number of newly qualified teachers that have remained in service for one to five years after qualifying in state funded schools in England.

The table of figures is an extract of a published table that shows the retention rates of newly qualified teachers between 1996 and 2015. The full data are contained within Table 8 of the statistical first release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2015’ which is available at the following web link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2015

Statistics on teacher retention below national (England) level are not available.

[1] Teachers in part-time service are under-recorded on the Database of Teacher Records by between 10 and 20% and therefore these figures may be underestimated.

[2] The percentage of teachers in service in anyone year will include those who may not have had continuous service to that year. For example, teachers could be in service for five consecutive years, miss a year, and then be in service in year seven onwards after qualifying.

[3] Calendar year in which the teachers qualified.

[4] Financial year during which the teachers entered service.

[5] Newly qualified entrants in year x are defined as all teachers who qualified between November x-1 and November x and were in service in school year x/x+1.

(p) Figures relating to 2010-11 and 2011-12 are provisional; entrant numbers rounded to nearest 100.