Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure children receive high quality mathematics, technology and science teaching.

As we committed in our manifesto, we will help teachers make Britain the best country in the world for developing mathematics, engineering, science and computing skills. To help achieve this, in March 2015, the Prime Minister announced further investment of £67 million over the next five years to train an extra 2,500 mathematics and physics teachers and improve the skills of 15,000 existing teachers.

The new national curriculum, GCSEs and A Levels all set expectations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics which meet those of countries which have the highest levels of performance in education in the world.

To support high quality teaching in science, the Department for Education funds training through a network of Regional Science Learning Centres and bursaries which reduce the cost to schools of science training. For mathematics, we fund a national network of 34 Maths Hubs and the Shanghai teacher exchange programme to raise standards based on the best international practice, and the Further Maths Support Programme to improve teaching of A level mathematics and further mathematics.