Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the Full Time Equivalent number of teachers employed in state schools in England in each of the last five years; and what is the corresponding pupil teacher ratio for each of these years.

Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.

Recent data shows that there are now over 468,000 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers in state funded schools in England. This is an increase of 27,000 (6%) since 2010. This makes the highest number of FTE teachers since the School Workforce Census began in 2010.

Information on the state funded school workforce in England, including the number of teachers and pupil to teacher ratios, is published in the annual ‘School Workforce in England’ national statistics release, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.