Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to encourage teachers to remain in the UK after they have completed their studies.

The Department does not collect specific data on the number of teachers who leave the UK to work abroad, whether they are UK nationals or overseas nationals who undertook their teacher training in the UK.

However, at a national level we are retaining and recruiting the teachers we need, and we have more teachers in state-funded schools in England than ever before. Of the teachers who trained in the 2014/15 academic year and who have successfully completed their training, 95% were employed in a state-funded school in England within six months of qualifying.

We recognise that given the strong graduate labour market there are challenges in recruiting and retaining teachers, particularly in certain subjects and for some specific schools. We are working hard to address the issues that cause teachers to consider leaving the profession, such as unnecessary workload and poor pupil behaviour, to ensure that teaching remains an attractive and rewarding career.