Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teaching graduates have gone on to work in schools in (a) England, (b) the West Midlands and (c) Sandwell Metropolitan Borough in each of the last five years.

The proportion of postgraduate final year trainee teachers awarded qualified teacher status, who were in a teaching post within 6 months of qualifying, is published in the Department’s annual initial teacher training (ITT) Performance Profiles statistical release. This is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2015-to-2016.

A time series of data for England are published in table 5a of the ‘Main Tables’ of the latest publication, which relates to trainees in the 2015/16 academic year.

Statistics by region are available for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 academic years in the ‘Main Text’ of the relevant publications. The Department does not publish this data by local authority district, but figures are available by ITT provider in the Provider-level tables.