Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the number of specialist teacher positions that remain vacant after (a) 6 months and (b) 12 months in (i) Preston constituency, (ii) Lancashire and (iii) England.

The information requested is not collected by the Department.

Information on the state-funded school workforce in England, including the number and rate of teacher vacancies by school, post and subject (where applicable) each November, is published in the annual ‘School Workforce in England’ national statistics release at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.