Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many full time teachers left the profession last year; and how many teachers were in service in each of the past ten years.

Between November 2016 and November 2017, 34,340 full-time qualified teachers left service from state funded schools in England. Over the same period, there were 38,310 qualified entrants to teaching in state funded schools.

The attached table shows the number of full-time equivalent number of teachers and teaching assistants in service in state funded schools in England, 2007 to 2017. Please note that the data source changed in 2010 with the introduction of the School Workforce Census. Information for the years prior to this relate to the situation as at January each year, information for years 2010 onwards relate to November each year. For 2010, both data sources have been included. Figures are in thousands.