Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many publicly funded schools have had specialist teachers for (1) music, (2) drama, (3) art, and (4) mathematics in each year since 2010.

The information requested is not held centrally.

National information on the number of subject teachers in state funded secondary schools is available in the publication, ‘School Workforce in England, 2017’. Information on the percentage of these who are classed as specialist teachers is shown is also available in the same publication. The publication is attached and available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.

A specialist teacher is defined as one who holds a relevant post A level qualification in a subject relevant to the subject taught.