Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many teachers were employed in primary and secondary state-funded schools in England on 31 December 2024.

Information on the school workforce, including the number of teachers in each school phase and type, is published in the ‘School workforce in England’ statistical publication, which can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

As of November 2023, the latest date for which data is available, there were 218,534 full-time equivalent (FTE) teachers employed in state-funded nursery and primary schools in England and 217,563 FTE teachers employed in state-funded secondary schools in England.

School workforce statistics as of November 2024 will be published in June 2025.