Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Teach First teachers in each (a) subject and (b) parliamentary constituency (i) began teaching and (ii) left the teaching profession in each of the last five years.

The first table below shows the number of Teach First teachers in each subject that began teaching in each of the last five years. The number of trainees starting is increasing annually including to STEM subjects, and the geographical spread is widening.

The following table shows the number of Teach First teachers in each subject that left the teaching profession in each of the last five years.

Notes:

Data for those in the second table gives a summary of those who left teaching either when on, or after completing, the Teach First Leadership Development Programme. This includes all those who have completed the Teach First programme since the first cohort in 2003. The data also includes those who have left more than once – for example an individual who leaves the profession in one year, returned, and then left the profession once more – for example someone taking career breaks and/or maternity leave.

Please see detailed tables in Appendix 1 (separate excel file) for data on Teach First teachers in each parliamentary constituency that began teaching in each of the last five years as well as those that left the teaching profession in each of the last five years.