Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of (a) registered and (b) active school teachers obtained their initial teaching qualification in an EU country other than the UK.

The information requested is not held centrally. The Department for Education’s annual School Workforce Census does not include the nationality of teachers or the location of where they qualified to become a teacher.

The Department does publish statistics showing awards of qualified teacher status to teachers from the European Economic Area. See Table 8 of the ‘Initial teacher training: trainee number census - 2016 to 2017’ statistical release published on

November 24 2016: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2016-to-2017.