Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Elizabeth Truss and Nadhim Zahawi

Monday 24th March 2014 Commons Chamber

[Elizabeth Truss]

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I think that we are at about 90% of our target for this year. It is vital that we get more people into maths teaching, so we have removed the cap on maths teacher recruitment and we are awarding the highest level of scholarships and bursaries to maths. Importantly, we also need more people doing maths at A-level, and we now have record numbers under this Government. We also have record numbers doing further maths at A-level and doing maths degrees. That will increase the supply of maths teachers in future.

[Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con)]

6. What progress has been made on the Shakespeare schools festival.