Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) modern languages and (b) art teachers have left the teaching profession (i) through retirement and (ii) for other reasons in each of the last five years.

Information regarding the number of teachers leaving the teaching profession broken down by subject is not held centrally.

Information is available showing the percentage of teachers leaving service by subject from state funded secondary education in England for 2011 to 2015. This information is contained the ‘Teachers Analysis Compendium 2017’, an analysis of trends in teacher supply, retention and mobility in England between 2010 and 2015. The specific data is available in Table 2.1 of statistical release at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/teachers-analysis-compendium-2017.

Given these percentages are estimates derived from a sample of data, it would not be appropriate to provide numbers.

No date has been set for an update to this publication.