Teachers
(asked on 5th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of teachers employed in state (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each of the last eight years.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent number of teachers in service in state funded nursery/primary schools and secondary schools in England for January 2009 and for November 2010 to 2016. Information for November 2017 will be available on 28 June 2018.
| Nursery/Primary Teachers (Thousands) | Secondary Teachers (Thousands) |
January 2009 | 200.9 | 225.5 |
November 2010 | 196.4 | 219.0 |
November 2011 | 199.5 | 215.2 |
November 2012 | 204.7 | 215.7 |
November 2013 | 209.5 | 214.2 |
November 2014 | 215.5 | 213.4 |
November 2015 | 220.0 | 210.9 |
November 2016 | 222.4 | 208.2 |
Sources: January 2009 (Form 618g), November 2010 to 2016 (School Workforce Census).
The information provided is publicly available from table 1 in the Statistical First Release ‘School Workforce in England, November 2016’. It can be found in the link below: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.