Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many secondary school music teachers there were in each of the last five years.
The number of music teachers in service at state funded secondary schools from November 2014 to November 2018 is provided in the table below:
Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Headcount of music teachers | 7,109 | 6,862 | 6,720 | 6,480 | 6,525 |
Source: School Workforce Census
The percentage of all hours taught which were spent on music in state funded secondary schools in England from November 2014 to 2018 is provided in the table below:
Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
% of hours spent on teaching music | 2.4% | 2.4% | 2.3% | 2.3% | 2.2% |
Source: School Workforce Census