Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of teachers leaving the profession in each of the last five years.

Information on the number of teachers who have retired and the number who have left the profession in each of the last five years is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england/2020.