Recruitment of Teachers

Baroness Fleet Excerpts

Thursday 6th February 2025 Lords Chamber

[Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab)]

My Lords—

[Baroness Fleet (Con)]

My Lords—

[Captain of the King’s Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard and Deputy Chief Whip (Baroness Wheeler) (Lab)]

My Lords, we will hear from the Tory Benches and then Labour.

[Baroness Fleet (Con)]

My Lords, I do not think that the Minister has fully answered my noble friend’s question. Is it 6,500 more teachers by the end of this Parliament?

[Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)]

Yes.