Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Answer of 8 July 2015 to Question 4879, on academies, how many academies whose funding arrangements were dependent on Qualified Teacher Status requested to amend their funding agreement in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017 and; how many of those requests were rejected.

In 2016 and 2017 the Education and Skills Funding Agency received two specific requests from schools with academy status to amend their funding agreement to enable them to employ teachers without qualified teacher status. One request was received in 2016 and the other in 2017. Both these applications were accepted.